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Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom

01 January 1991

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Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom
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Author: Matoesian, Gregory M.
Publisher: Cambridge: Polity Press 1993
Keywords: Sexual violence Rape Courtroom procedures Social linguistics

Contents:
"This book offers new insight into one of the most disturbing
social problems of modern societies: rape. Matoesian provides an
analysis of pre-existing studies of the phenomenon, but in the bulk
of the book he seeks to break away from existing approaches.
We can understand how patriarchal domination is perpetuated, argues
Matoesian, by looking at the social organization of rape trials.
Using tape recordings of actual trials, Reproducing Rape considers
the cross-examination of the victim as an adversarial war of words
which serves in effect as a system of domination. Rather than looking
at the way in which rape is experienced subjectively by individual
victims, Matoesian explicates how rape is interpreted and classified
within the ongoing language of the courtroom."

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