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Colonial discourse and gender in U.S. criminal courts : cultural defenses and prosecutions / Caroline Braunmühl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braunmühl, Caroline.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in criminology ; 12.
- Routledge advances in criminology ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- United States.
- Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Colonies--Law and legislation.
- Colonies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Colonial discourse and gender in United States criminal courts
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Theoretical perspective
- The corpus of cases
- Ethnicizing prosecutions and defenses : "culture" and "gender" in trial parties' argumentative strategies and in the debate about "the cultural defense"
- Biases and blindspots in the debate
- Cultural profiling : the patriarchal other : first case study
- "Cultural defense" I : the oppressed third world woman : second case study
- "Cultural defense" II : the patriarchal other : third case study
- Conclusion: cultural information or gendered colonial discourse?
- Resistance/instabilities : the spectrum of discursive politics in trials involving "cultural evidence" and the involuntary subversion of hegemonic discourse
- Contesting "cultural evidence" : adversarial opposition or mutual collusion?
- Witnesses and hegemonic consensus
- Beyond mere "resistance" : the spectrum of instabilities fracturing hegemonic trial discourse and what difference they make
- Conclusion: practical/theoretical implications
- Appendix: overview of the cases (with commentary)
- Cases, constitutional amendments, rules of evidence, and statutes cited
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Glossary of legal terms
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415899253
- 0415899257
- OCLC:
- 724641516
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