Catherine Burns

Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134327645
• Artikelnr.: 40464870

Autorenporträt

Catherine Burns lectures in the School of Languages and linguistics, Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include gender studies, law and popular culture in Japan, and feminist jurisprudence.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: Rape v Murder - or (Excessive) Self-Defence? 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