Colonial discourse and gender in U.S. criminal courts
Subtitle: cultural defenses and prosecutions
By: by Caroline Braunmühl
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge advances in criminology -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415899253
Subjects: Politics and government; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration; Colonies; Law and legislation; Legal status, laws; Minorities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Theoretical perspective; title: The corpus of cases; title: Ethnicizing prosecutions and defenses : "culture" and "gender" in trial parties' argumentative strategies and in the debate about "the cultural defense"; title: Biases and blindspots in the debate; title: Cultural profiling : the patriarchal other : first case study; title: "Cultural defense" I : the oppressed third world woman : second case study; title: "Cultural defense" II : the patriarchal other : third case study; title: Conclusion: cultural information or gendered colonial discourse?; title: Resistance/instabilities : the spectrum of discursive politics in trials involving "cultural evidence" and the involuntary subversion of hegemonic discourse; title: Contesting "cultural evidence" : adversarial opposition or mutual collusion?; title: Witnesses and hegemonic consensus; title: Beyond mere "resistance" : the spectrum of instabilities fracturing hegemonic trial discourse and what difference they make; title: Conclusion: practical/theoretical implications; title: Appendix: overview of the cases (with commentary); title: Cases, constitutional amendments, rules of evidence, and statutes cited; title: Abbreviations; title: Notes; title: Glossary of legal terms; title: References; title: Index.