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001 2012028495
003 DLC
005 20140411113953.0
008 120712s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012028495
020 $a9780814707937 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780814725214 (ebook)
020 $a9780814708231 (ebook)
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050 00 $aKF9329$b.C67 2013
082 00 $a345.73/02532$223
084 $aLAW043000$aSOC028000$aLAW026000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aCorrigan, Rose.
245 10 $aUp against a wall :$brape reform and the failure of success /$cRose Corrigan.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$cc2013.
300 $ax, 320 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-304) and index.
520 $a"Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses to victims of sexual violence. In Up Against a Wall, Rose Corrigan draws on interviews with over 150 local rape care advocates in communities across the United States to explore how and why mainstream systems continue to resist feminist reforms.In a series of richly detailed case studies, the book weaves together scholarship on law and social movements, feminist theory, policy formation and implementation, and criminal justice to show how the innovative legal strategies employed by anti-rape advocates actually undermined some of their central claims. But even as its more radical elements were thwarted, pieces of the rape law reform project were seized upon by conservative policy-makers and used to justify new initiatives that often prioritize the interests and rights of criminal justice actors or medical providers over the needs of victims"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aRape$zUnited States.
650 0 $aRape victims$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLaw reform$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAnti-rape movement$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFeminist theory$zUnited States.
650 7 $aLAW / Gender & the Law.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLAW / Criminal Law / General.$2bisacsh
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy14pdf01/2012028495.html