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Sexual violence and the law in Japan / Catherine Burns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Catherine, 1957-
- Series:
- ASAA women in Asia series.
- ASAA women in Asia series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rape--Japan.
- Rape.
- Sex crimes--Japan.
- Sex crimes.
- Sex discrimination in justice administration--Japan.
- Sex discrimination in justice administration.
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Japan.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Women--Crimes against--Japan.
- Women.
- Women--Violence against--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 197 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable.
- Contents:
- 1. Legal storytelling and sexual violence
- 2. Hegemonic masculinity and guilty feminine bodies
- 3. Confronting the Japanese criminal justice system
- 4. Credibility in the court : scripting rape
- 5. 'In truth she was probably very drunk' : women subject to scrutiny
- 6. Markers of truth : silencing women in the court
- 7. Subversive stories and feminist strategies
- 8. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-32763-3
- 1-134-32764-1
- 0-203-42943-5
- 1-280-11459-2
- 0-415-33651-1
- 9780203429433
- OCLC:
- 275257979
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