Up against a wall [electronic resource] : rape reform and the failure of success / Rose Corrigan.
2013
KF9329 .C67 2013eb
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Up against a wall [electronic resource] : rape reform and the failure of success / Rose Corrigan.
Author
Corrigan, Rose.
ISBN
9780814725214 (electronic bk.)
081472521X (electronic bk.)
9780814708231 (electronic bk.)
0814708234 (electronic bk.)
9780814707937 (hardback)
0814707939 (hardback)
081472521X (electronic bk.)
9780814708231 (electronic bk.)
0814708234 (electronic bk.)
9780814707937 (hardback)
0814707939 (hardback)
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New York : New York University Press, c2013.
Language
English
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1 online resource (x, 320 p.)
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KF9329 .C67 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.73/02532
Summary
"Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses to victims of sexual violence. In Up Against a Wall, Rose Corrigan draws on interviews with over 150 local rape care advocates in communities across the United States to explore how and why mainstream systems continue to resist feminist reforms. In a series of richly detailed case studies, the book weaves together scholarship on law and social movements, feminist theory, policy formation and implementation, and criminal justice to show how the innovative legal strategies employed by anti-rape advocates actually undermined some of their central claims. But even as its more radical elements were thwarted, pieces of the rape law reform project were seized upon by conservative policy-makers and used to justify new initiatives that often prioritize the interests and rights of criminal justice actors or medical providers over the needs of victims"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction. The failure of success
The anti-rape movement and the turn to law
Listening to rape care advocates
Institutional responses to rape : following the "leaky pipeline" of rape reporting
Developing the body of evidence : sexual assault nurse examiner programs
When rights are wrong : emergency contraception and the failure of policy success
When is a rapist a sex offender? : Sex offender registration and notification statutes
Fleeing from feminism : the troubled legacy of rape law reform.
The anti-rape movement and the turn to law
Listening to rape care advocates
Institutional responses to rape : following the "leaky pipeline" of rape reporting
Developing the body of evidence : sexual assault nurse examiner programs
When rights are wrong : emergency contraception and the failure of policy success
When is a rapist a sex offender? : Sex offender registration and notification statutes
Fleeing from feminism : the troubled legacy of rape law reform.