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How To Feel Like A Woman, Or Why Punishment Is A Drag, Mary Anne Franks Jan 2014

How To Feel Like A Woman, Or Why Punishment Is A Drag, Mary Anne Franks

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If a man in prison says that he was made -to feel like a woman," this is commonly understood to mean that he was degraded, dehumanized, and sexualized. This association of femininity with punishment has significant implications for the way our society understands not only the sexual abuse of men in prison but also sexual abuse generally These important implications are usually overlooked, however, because law and society typically regard prison feminization as a problem of gender transposition: that is, as a problem of men being treated like women. In contrast, this Article argues that feminization is punitive for both …


Criminalizing Revenge Porn, Danielle Citron, Mary Anne Franks Jan 2014

Criminalizing Revenge Porn, Danielle Citron, Mary Anne Franks

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