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India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased
international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and
activism. In recent years, related studies on India and South Asia
have proliferated but their analyses often fail to identify why
violence flourishes. Unwilling to simply accept patriarchy as the
answer, Tamsin Bradley presents new research examining how
different groups in India conceptualise violence against women,
revealing beliefs around religion, caste and gender that render
aggression socially acceptable. She also analyses the role that
neoliberalism, and its corollary consumerism, play in reducing
women to commodity objects for barter or exchange. Unpacking varied
conservative, liberal and neoliberal ideologies active in India
today, Bradley argues that they can converge unexpectedly to
normalise violence against women. Due to these complex and
overlapping factors, rates of violence against women in India have
actually increased despite decades of feminist campaigning. This
book will be crucial to those studying Indian gender politics and
violence, but also presents new data and methodologies which have
practical implications for researchers and policymakers worldwide.
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Body Talk
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Takwa Gordon
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The sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy is arguably the
most acute crisis Catholicism has faced since the Reformation. The
prevalence of clergy sexual abuse and its shocking cover-up by
church officials have obscured the largely untold story of the tort
system's remarkable success in bringing the scandal to light,
focusing attention on the need for institutional reform, and
spurring church leaders and public officials into action.
Stories of the tort system as an engine of social justice are
rare. "Holding Bishops Accountable" tells one such story by
revealing how pleadings, discovery documents, and depositions
fueled media coverage of the scandal. Timothy Lytton shows how the
litigation strategy of plaintiffs' lawyers gave rise to a
widespread belief that the real problem was not the actions of
individual priests but rather the church's massive institutional
failure. The book documents how church and government policymakers
responded to the problem of clergy sexual abuse only under the
pressure of private lawsuits.
As Lytton deftly demonstrates, the lessons of clergy sexual
abuse litigation give us reason to reconsider the case for tort
reform and to look more closely at how tort litigation can enhance
the performance of public and private policymaking
institutions.
Our world enables the sexual abuse of children. Children of all
ages are abused in every country in the world, by members of every
society, culture, religion, and socio-economic class. About 120
million children under twenty, or one child in ten, report sexual
abuse. We often blame children for their own abuse instead of
holding the perpetrators responsible for their crimes. When
perpetrators are prosecuted, punishments are rarely severe.
Remarkably, we sometimes justify child sex abuse, or even
facilitate it, allowing it to continue, not only in hidden places,
but even in the open. This book exposes the stunning extent of
child sex abuse in today's world.
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Sasha Greene
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From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a
definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely
out of the news. Cultural critic Mithu Sanyal is picking up where
Susan Brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book Against Our
Will. In fact, she argues that the way we understand rape hasn't
changed since then, even as the world has changed beyond
recognition. She contends that it is high time for a new and
informed debate about rape, sexual boundaries and consent. Sanyal
argues that the way we as a society understand rape tells us not
just how we understand sexual violence, but how we understand sex,
sexuality, and gender itself. For instance, why is it so hard to
imagine men as victims of rape? Why do we expect victims to be
irreparably damaged? When we think of rapists, why do we still
think of strangers in dark alleys, rather than uncles, husbands,
priests, or boyfriends? The book examines the role of race and the
trope of the black rapist, the omission of male victims, and what
we mean when we talk about rape culture. She provocatively takes
every received opinion we have about rape, and turns it inside out
- arguing with liberals, conservatives, feminists and sexists
alike.
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