Colonial discourse and gender in U.S. criminal courts [electronic resource] : cultural defenses and prosecutions / Caroline Braunmáeuhl.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge advances in criminology ; 12.Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012. Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 281 pISBN: 9780203123751 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States | Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States | Colonies -- Law and legislation | United States -- Politics and governmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Theoretical perspective -- pt. 3. The corpus of cases -- pt. 4. Ethnicizing prosecutions and defenses : "culture" and "gender" in trial parties' argumentative strategies and in the debate about "the cultural defense" -- pt. 5. Resistance/instabilities : the spectrum of discursive politics in trials involving "cultural evidence" and the involuntary subversion of hegemonic discourse -- pt. 5. Conclusion : practical/theoretical implications.
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