A law of her own : the reasonable woman as a measure of man /

A law of her own : the reasonable woman as a measure of man /

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Author / Creator:Forell, Caroline A.
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, ©2000.
Description:1 online resource (xxii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
Subject:
Sex crimes -- United States.
Criminal liability -- United States.
Defense (Criminal procedure) -- United States.
Sexual abuse victims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Criminal liability.
Defense (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes.
Sexual abuse victims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
United States.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12314199
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Other authors / contributors:Matthews, Donna M. (Donna Meredith)
ISBN:0585331987
9780585331980
0814726763
9780814726761
9780814723937
0814723934
0814726771
9780814726778
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"In A Law of Her Own, the authors propose to radically change law's fundamental paradigm by introducing a "reasonable woman standard" for measuring certain behavior. Advocating that courts apply this standard to the conduct of men - and women - in legal settings where women are overwhelmingly the injured parties, the authors seek to eliminate the victimization and objectification of women by dismantling part of the legal structure that supports their subordination."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Forell, Caroline A. Law of her own. New York : New York University Press, ©2000 0814726763
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A Note on Sources and Citation
  • I. The Idea and the Reality
  • 1. Locked In and Locked Out
  • The Legal Status of Women
  • The Reasonable Person and the Status Quo
  • 2. The Meaning of Equality
  • Difference as a Double Bind
  • The Sources of Difference
  • Equality on Women's Terms
  • The Reasonable Woman Applied
  • II. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
  • 3. Men, Women, and Sex at Work
  • The Evolution of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment
  • Why Courts Should Adopt the Reasonable Woman Standard
  • 4. How and Why Different Perspectives Matter in Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Cases
  • Why It Matters
  • Love It or Leave It: Rabidue v. Osceola Refining Co.
  • The Majority's Story
  • The Dissent's Story
  • Don't Try to Change Things: Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc.
  • The Trial Judge's Story
  • The Plaintiff's Experts
  • The Defendant's Experts
  • Can't You Take A Joke? Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
  • The Harris Facts
  • Charles Hardy's Story
  • The Magistrate's Story
  • The Supreme Court Opinions
  • 5. Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation, and the Reasonable Woman
  • Female-on-Male Sexual Harassment
  • Male-on-Male "Macho" Sexual Harassment
  • Gay Men and Lesbians and Sexual Harassment
  • The Reasonable Woman and Essentialism
  • Questions and Complexities
  • 6. The Reasonable Woman after Harris v. Forklift Systems
  • Once a Model, Always a Model: Dellert v. Total Vision, Inc.
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Baskerville v. Culligan International Company
  • "My Girl": Eckroth v. Rockford Products Co.
  • Whoever Heard of a Woman Truck Driver? Munday v. Waste Mgmt. of North America
  • Making a Difference
  • III. Stalking
  • 7. Stalking and the Gendered Meaning of Reasonable Fear
  • Stalking Law
  • Stalking Remedies
  • Reasonable Fear--A Woman's Perspective
  • Incorporating Women's Perspectives
  • 8. The Continuum of Stalking, Sexual Harassment, and Domestic Homicide
  • Stalking and Sexual Harassment
  • The Love-Struck Stalker: Ellison v. Brady
  • No Such Thing as an Unlisted Number: Fuller v. City of Oakland
  • Stalking and Domestic Homicide
  • "Sorry, Lady"
  • Sometimes the Stalker Loses Too
  • IV. Domestic Homicide
  • 9. Slips in a Dangerous Game
  • The Spectrum of Domestic Violence
  • Why People Kill Their Intimates
  • The Law of Domestic Homicide
  • Domestic Homicide and the Reasonable Woman
  • 10. "Provoked" Intimate Homicide
  • The Law of "Crimes of Passion"
  • The Reasonable Woman and Passion/Provocation Homicide
  • The Cases
  • "There Are Murders and There Are Murders"
  • A False Parity: The "Domestic Dispute"
  • Blinders on Justice: People v. Berry
  • Stalking Shows His Distress, Lessening the Crime: Farinas v. State
  • Prepared for Deadly Rage: Moye v. State
  • A Real Crime of Passion: "Rough Sex"
  • On the Importance of Words
  • 11. When Battered Women Kill
  • The Law of Self-Defense
  • When Battered Women Assert Self-Defense
  • Damned If She Does: Commonwealth v. Stonehouse
  • Sometimes They Get It (Almost) Right
  • The Reasonable Woman and Self-Defense
  • V. Rape
  • 12. Rape and the Use and Misuse of the Reasonable Woman
  • The Law of Rape
  • Women, Sex, and the Male Gaze
  • Unrapeable Women
  • How Can You Rape Your Own Wife?
  • "She Asked for It"
  • How Many Prostitutes Must He Rape before a Man Is a Rapist?
  • Getting It Right
  • What Would a Reasonable Woman Do?
  • Postscript
  • References
  • Books, Journals, Articles, Briefs, and Reports
  • Cases
  • Statutes
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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