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11%OFFRose Corrigan - Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success - 9781479815517 - V9781479815517
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Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success

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Description for Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success Paperback. Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. In this book, the author draws on interviews with over 150 local rape care advocates in communities across the United States to explore how and why mainstream systems continue to resist feminist reforms. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JFFK; LNFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.

Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses to victims of sexual violence. In Up Against a Wall, Rose Corrigan draws on interviews with over 150 local rape care advocates in communities across the United States to explore how and why mainstream systems continue to resist feminist reforms.

In a series of richly detailed case studies, the book weaves together ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479815517
SKU
V9781479815517
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Ref
99-50

About Rose Corrigan
Rose Corrigan is Associate Professor of Law and Politics at Drexel University. In addition to holding degrees from Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers University—New Brunswick, she was a direct service provider in the fields of sexual and domestic violence for more than ten years.

Reviews for Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
At last, a comprehensive and scholarly account of the antirape movement that should sound the alarm at how little law in action has changed, despite policy successes with rape law on the books. Corrigans searing analysis makes a major contribution to political science, sociology, law, and public policy. Following Patricia Yancey Martins organizational analysis of why rape policy reforms have ... Read more

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