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Rape Trauma, The State, And The Art Of Tracey Emin, Yxta M. Murray
Rape Trauma, The State, And The Art Of Tracey Emin, Yxta M. Murray
Yxta M. Murray
Prosecutors use “rape trauma syndrome” evidence at rape trials to explain victims’ “counterintuitive” behaviors and demeanors, such as their late reporting, rape denials, returning to the scenes of their attacks, and lack of emotional affect. Courts and experts, in instructions and testimony, usually describe victim reticence as a product of “shame” or “trauma.” Feminist critics of R.T.S. evidence posit that the syndrome’s profile is based on incomplete evidence, because most rapes are unreported. Furthermore, they object to its condescending, sexist, and colonial construction of rape victims and their emotions. In this Article, I respond to feminist critics by studying the …
Rape Trauma, The State, And The Art Of Tracey Emin, Yxta M. Murray
Rape Trauma, The State, And The Art Of Tracey Emin, Yxta M. Murray
Yxta M. Murray
Prosecutors use “rape trauma syndrome” evidence at rape trials to explain victims’ “counterintuitive” behaviors and demeanors, such as late reporting, denying their rapes, returning to the scenes of their attacks, and lack of emotional affect. Courts and experts, in instructions and testimony, usually describe victim reticence as a product of “shame” or “trauma.” Feminist critics of R.T.S. evidence posit that it is based on incomplete evidence, because most rapes are unreported. Furthermore, they object to its condescending, sexist, and colonial construction of rape victims and their emotions. In this Article, I respond to feminist critics by studying the work of …
“You’Re Creating New Categories:” Anglo-American Radical Feminism’S Constitutionalism In The Streets, Yxta M. Murray
“You’Re Creating New Categories:” Anglo-American Radical Feminism’S Constitutionalism In The Streets, Yxta M. Murray
Yxta M. Murray
In this paper, I examine the constitutional meaning of two political protests: The 1968 Miss America protest by New York Radical Women and the 1970 British radical feminist protest of the Miss World competition in London. Using the work of Reva Siegel, Jack Balkin, and Lynda G. Dodd as a foundation for my inquiry into how these social movement protests influenced constitutional culture concerning women's rights, I first engage in historical and social analyses of the protests themselves. In particular, I study the different approaches the U.S. and British feminists had to using lawbreaking, violence, and other outrageous acts in …
“You’Re Creating New Categories:” Anglo-American Radical Feminism’S Constitutionalism In The Streets, Yxta M. Murray
“You’Re Creating New Categories:” Anglo-American Radical Feminism’S Constitutionalism In The Streets, Yxta M. Murray
Yxta M. Murray
In "You’re Creating New Categories:" Anglo-American Radical Feminism’s Constitutionalism in the Streets, I examine the constitutional meaning of two political protests: The 1968 Miss America protest by New York Radical Women and the 1970 British radical feminist protest of the Miss World competition in London. Using the work of Reva Siegel, Jack Balkin, and Lynda G. Dodd as a foundation for my inquiry into how these social movement protests influenced constitutional culture concerning women's rights, I first engage in historical and social analyses of the protests themselves. In particular, I study the different approaches the U.S. and British feminists had …
The Pedagogy Of Violence, Yxta M. Murray
The Pedagogy Of Violence, Yxta M. Murray
Yxta M. Murray
In The Pedagogy of Violence, I develop a legal theory of the ways in which human beings teach each other to be violent. I am responding to the “contagion of violence” theory advocated by legal theorists such as Colin Loftin and Dr. Jeffrey Fagan, who argue that violence is akin to a contagious disease. Using disease as their paradigm, Loftin and Fagan contend that courts and political institutions should address the problem of violence through what they call the “epidemiological” approach; that is, they say that violence should be addressed as a public health problem. Though I do not take …