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Einband grossColonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts
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Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

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306 Seiten
Englisch
Taylor & Franciserschienen am06.08.2012
This book illuminates how "cultural evidence" ("evidence" regarding ethnicity) is negotiated by attorneys, witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials. Braunmühl argues that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of a "cultural defense" has tended to obscure its origin in colonialist and patriarchal discourses, and has been biased against minorities as well as all women from its inception.mehr
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KlappentextThis book illuminates how "cultural evidence" ("evidence" regarding ethnicity) is negotiated by attorneys, witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials. Braunmühl argues that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of a "cultural defense" has tended to obscure its origin in colonialist and patriarchal discourses, and has been biased against minorities as well as all women from its inception.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781136341168
ProduktartE-Book
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FormatEPUB
Format HinweisDRM Adobe
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Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum06.08.2012
Seiten306 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Dateigrösse595 Kbytes
Illustrationen2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Artikel-Nr.2801685
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Genre9200

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Introduction Part II: Theoretical Perspective Part III: The Corpus of Cases Part IV: Ethnicizing Prosecutions and Defenses: 'Culture' and 'Gender' in Trial Parties' Argumentative Strategies and in the Debate About 'the Cultural Defense' 1. Biases and Blindspots in the Debate 2. Cultural Profiling: The Patriarchal Other-First Case Study 3. 'Cultural Defense' I: The Oppressed Third World Woman-Second Case Study 4. 'Cultural Defense' II: The Patriarchal Other-Third Case Study 5. Conclusion: Cultural Information or Gendered Colonial Discourse? Part V: Resistance/Instabilities: The Spectrum of Discursive Politics in Trials Involving 'Cultural Evidence' and the Involuntary Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse 6. Contesting 'Cultural Evidence': Adversarial Opposition or Mutual Collusion? 7. Witnesses and Hegemonic Consensus 8. Beyond Mere 'Resistance': The Spectrum of Instabilities Fracturing Hegemonic Trial Discourse and What Difference They Make Part VI: Conclusion: Practical/Theoretical Implications.mehr

Autor

Caroline Braunmühl is a sociologist publishing in the fields of post-structuralist theory as well cultural, gender and post-colonial studies.
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