A law of her own : the reasonable woman as a measure of man /
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| Author / Creator: | Forell, Caroline A. |
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2000. |
| Description: | xxii, 261 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4184982 |
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