A Consented Rape
A Consented Rape

Author: Sahil Thaker

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1947429280

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Abhishek Sharma and Shweta Malhotra are a perfect couple—young, well-educated, employed in lucrative corporate jobs in Mumbai, and very much in love. A misunderstanding and a fallout between them results in a night of drinking and passion for Abhishek. The next morning, Abhishek is charged with raping the underage daughter of a powerful politician and arrested. His entire life and career falls apart. He is put on a media trial and one by a real court. Fired from his job and branded as a rapist, he is forced to turn to the aunt of the very woman who left him, for help. Enter Isha Gupta, the calm yet determined lawyer who will pull out all stops to secure his release. The thrilling book takes readers from the plush offices and high rises of Mumbai to its gritty chawls, unraveling deep buried secrets and behind the scene conspiracies. Will Isha be able to save Abhishek and bring the real criminal to justice?

Is it Rape?
Is it Rape?

Author: Joan McGregor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1351926144

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The issue of acquaintance rape has been gaining increased prominence in recent years. In this book Joan McGregor analyses the ethical and legal problems that arise in connection with acquaintance rape cases. She discusses with great clarity and precision the complexities involved in notions such as consent, force, autonomy, power, intention and the impairment of responsibility through drugs, alcohol and mental illness. Arguing that criminal rape laws are too narrow, capturing only cases where there is clearly recognized physical violence and resistance from the victim, she sets out a new proposal for how the criminal law should deal with cases of nonconsensual sex which captures the ideals of a liberal political society and in particular the idea of equality. This book explains fully what it means when a woman says no and means no.

Campuses of Consent
Campuses of Consent

Author: Theresa A. Kulbaga

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781625344588

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This new book for scholars and university administrators offers a provocative critique of sexual justice language and policy in higher education around the concept of consent. Complicating the idea that consent is plain common sense, Campuses of Consent shows how normative and inaccurate concepts about gender, gender identity, and sexuality erase queer or trans students' experiences and perpetuate narrow, regressive gender norms and individualist frameworks for understanding violence. Theresa A. Kulbaga and Leland G. Spencer prove that consent in higher education cannot be meaningfully separated from larger issues of institutional and structural power and oppression. While sexual assault advocacy campaigns, such as It's On Us, federal legislation from Title IX to the Clery Act, and more recent affirmative-consent measures tend to construct consent in individualist terms, as something given or received by individuals, the authors imagine consent as something that can be constructed systemically and institutionally: in classrooms, campus communication, and shared campus spaces.

Representing Rape
Representing Rape

Author: Susan Ehrlich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-27

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1134627653

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Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events are often the only type of evidence available. Language does not simply reflect but helps to construct the character of the people and events under investigation. The book is based around a case study of the trial of a male student accused of two instances of sexual assault in two different settings: a university tribunal and a criminal trial. This case is situated within international studies on rape trials and is relevant to the legal systems of the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. She shows how culturally-dominant notions about rape percolate through the talk of sexual assault cases in a variety of settings and ultimately shape their outcome. Ehrlich hopes that to understand rape trials in this way is to recognize their capacity for change. By highlighting the underlying preconceptions and prejudices in the language of courtrooms today, this important book paves the way towards a fairer judicial system for the future.

Sexual Consent
Sexual Consent

Author: Milena Popova

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780262353595

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An introduction to issues of sexual consent, covering key strands of feminist thought, how sexual consent is negotiated in practice, the influence of popular culture, and more. The #MeToo movement has focused public attention on the issue of sexual consent. People of all genders, from all walks of life, have stepped forward to tell their stories of sexual harassment and violation. In a predictable backlash, others have taken to mass media to inquire plaintively if "flirting" is now forbidden. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a nuanced introduction to sexual consent by a writer who is both a scholar and an activist on this issue. It has become clear from discussions of the recent high-profile cases of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and others that there is no clear agreement over what constitutes consent or non-consent and how they are expressed and perceived in sexual situations. This book presents key strands of feminist thought on the subject of sexual consent from across academic and activist communities and covers the history of research on consent in such fields as psychology and feminist legal studies. It discusses how sexual consent is negotiated in practice, from "No means no" to "Yes means yes," and describes what factors might limit individual agency in such negotiations. It examines how popular culture, including pornography, romance fiction, and sex advice manuals, shapes our ideas of consent; explores the communities at the forefront of consent activism; and considers what meaningful social change in this area might look like. Going beyond the conventional cisgender, heterosexual norm, the book lists additional resources for those seeking to improve their practice of consent, survivors of sexual violence, and readers who want to understand contemporary debates on this issue in more depth.

Colonizing Consent
Colonizing Consent

Author: Elizabeth Thornberry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 110847280X

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Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

Sexual Assault and the Justice Gap: A Question of Attitude
Sexual Assault and the Justice Gap: A Question of Attitude

Author: Jennifer Temkin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1847314201

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This book is set against the background of the 'justice gap' in sexual assault cases - the dramatic gap between the number of offences recorded by the police and the number of convictions. It seeks to examine the attitudinal problems which bedevil this area of law and possible strategies for addressing them. Written by a professor of law and a professor of psychology, it reviews evidence from socio-legal and social cognition research and presents new data drawn both from interviews with judges and barristers and from studies with prospective lawyers and members of the public. In the final part, it considers different ways in which rape trials could be improved and suggests steps that could be taken to change public attitudes about sexual assault.

Consent to Sexual Relations
Consent to Sexual Relations

Author: Alan Wertheimer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-18

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780521536110

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An important discussion of philosophical issues surrounding consent to sexual relations.

Marital Rape
Marital Rape

Author: Kersti Yllö

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0190238364

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Marital Rape is the first book to examine rape in marriage as a global problem affecting millions of women. While legal and cultural conceptions of marital rape vary widely -- from criminal assault to wifely duty -- the authors document that forced sex undermines the physical and psychological well-being of women in all cultures.