Up Against a Wall : Rape Reform and the Failure of Success /

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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 response...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Corrigan, Rose
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rape victims > Legal status, laws, etc.
Rape.
Law reform.
Feminist theory.
Anti-rape movement.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
LAW > Gender & the Law.
Theorie feministe > États-Unis.
Mouvement contre le viol > États-Unis.
Droit > Reforme > États-Unis.
Feminist theory > United States.
Anti-rape movement > United States.
Law reform > United States.
Rape victims > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Rape > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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