Caroline Braunmühl

Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136341168
• Artikelnr.: 38253100

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.