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 | | A Most Detestable Crime: New Philosophical Essays on Rape by Keith Burgess-Jackson (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780195120752 ISBN-10: 0-19-512075-2 ISBN-13: 9780195120752 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512075-2 Hardcover 1999-09-09 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Rape is one of the oldest crimes, yet in some ways it is the least understood. Criminal law classifies rape as a crime against the person along with murder, robbery, and battery. But in at least one respect rape is unique--with few exceptions its perpetrators are male and its victims are female. The gendered nature of rape raises questions of equality and fairness as well as about the scope of individual rights to autonomy, privacy, security, and bodily integrity. Rape is therefore an important subject for political and social philosophy as well as for ethics, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of law. This collection of original essays by leading philosophers investigates the philosophical dimensions of rape in all of its manifestations: act, crime, practice, and institution. The essays examine such issues as the nature of rape; the wrongfulness and harmfulness of rape; the relation of rape to racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of oppression; and the legitimacy of various rape-law doctrines (such as the corroboration requirement, the marital-rape exemption, and the reasonable-belief defense). Each contributor advances a novel argument and seeks to disentangle the conceptual, evaluative, and empirical issues that arise in connection with the crime. Editor Keith Burgess-Jackson provides a substantive introduction, a history of rape law, two extensive bibliographies, and a detailed index to round out this major addition to a much-needed philosophical discussion of rape. A Most Detestable Crime is among the first philosophical anthologies devoted exclusively to the subject of rape--as complex and interesting intellectually as it is pervasive and disturbing socially. It is an essential reference work not only for legal and feminist philosophers, but for feminist scholars and practitioners in every field, including law, medicine, social work, and counseling. This volume will also be of interest to social, political, and legal theorists of every ideological and methodological persuasion. | ||
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A Debased Academic Megastar Permit me then to have a thought: Does Herr Burgess not take his pleasing line as it is? Last month I, too, had published something similar to the piece above, following his so-called movie, only to find he has gathered to propose something completely different. It would appear that his ability then rests on what is left of his credibility as he rips through the surface, so that no male can function. But of course he could not have had any other ideas before going out on duty. And even though he is sleepy, he unfortunately tests the soundness of his own convictions, which fail him utterly here. Rather comically, his technique, such as it is, is much too heavily invested in the root population to enable him to organize his meager collection of articles. But such technique is an inconsistent friend, isn't it? Oh well, I guess it beats being a debased academic megastar, but you can tell from his resulting character that he has long since become "abgefressen" (as Herr Burgess himself might put it). These shattered lives, supposedly engaged by everything except this ruthless technique, are really just another case of the pot calling the kettle back again. Such "technique" can, in fact, be quite deadly. Herr Burgess ought to be ashamed. | ||