Title:
Sexual justice : supporting victims, ensuring due process, and resisting the conservative backlash / Alexandra Brodsky.
ISBN:
9781250262547
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
x, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
The story of after -- A civil right -- What institutions can do -- Why not the police? -- When institutions fail -- "The other side" -- What is due -- An incomplete blueprint -- Why process matters for all -- The limits of process -- Straw feminists -- An "exceptional" harm -- The roots of exceptionalism -- Exceptions to exceptionalism -- Ugly histories -- Of men's rights and famous men -- The people who want to bring you mandatory referral -- Indelible in the Hippocampus -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how we can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused, and exposing the sexism that shapes today's contentious debates about due process. Over the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their assailants and broad societal change. Each prominent allegation, however, has also set off a wave of questions--some posed in good faith, some distinctly not--about the rights of the accused. The national conversation has grown polarized, inflamed by a public narrative that wrongly presents feminism and fair process as warring interests. Sexual Justice is an intervention, pointing the way to common ground. Drawing on core principles of civil rights law, and the personal experiences of victims and the accused, Alexandra Brodsky details how schools, workplaces, and other institutions can--indeed, must--address sexual harms in ways fair to all. She shows why these allegations cannot be left to police and prosecutors alone, and outlines the key principles of fair proceedings outside the courts. Brodsky explains how contemporary debates continue the long, sexist history of 'rape exceptionalism,' in which sexual allegations are treated as uniquely suspect. And she calls on readers to resist the anti-feminist backlash that hijacks the rhetoric of due process to protect male impunity"--Book jacket.
OCLC Number:
on1237649342
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