Sexual justice : supporting victims, ensuring due process, and resisting the conservative backlash / Alexandra Brodsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brodsky, Alexandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--United States.

Sex discrimination against women.

Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation.

Sexual abuse victims--Legal status, laws, etc.

United States.

Women--Crimes against--United States.

Women.

Women--Crimes against.

Sexual harassment of women--Law and legislation--United States.

Sexual harassment of women.

Sexual harassment of women--Law and legislation.

Sexual abuse victims--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Sexual abuse victims.

Due process of law--United States.

Due process of law.

Physical Description:

x, 322 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

Summary:

"A pathbreaking work for the #MeToo era, laying out a better response to sexual harms that includes due process for the accused"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I REPORTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT in the REAL WORLD

1. The Story of After

2. A Civil Right

3. What Institutions Can Do

4. Why Not the Police?

5. When Institutions Fail

pt. II TOWARD a FAIR PROCESS

6. "The Other Side"

7. What is Due

8. An Incomplete Blueprint

9. Why Process Matters for All

10. The Limits of Process

11. Straw Feminists

pt. III EXCEPTIONALISM

12. An "Exceptional" Harm

13. The Roots of Exceptionalism

14. Exceptions to Exceptionalism

15. Ugly Histories

pt. IV CO-OPTATION

16. Of Men's Rights and Famous Men

17. The People Who Want to Bring you Mandatory Referral

18. Indelible in the Hippocampus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brodsky, Alexandra. Sexual justice.

ISBN:

9781250262547

1250262542

OCLC:

1237649342