NCJ Number
182071
Editor(s)
Stephanie McMahon
Date Published
1998
Length
308 pages
Annotation
These 13 papers examine women, crime, and culture, with emphasis on how systems of domination and oppression overlap in analyses of these issues, on manifestations of the dominant culture tend to criminalize women, and how this criminalization becomes more apparent with the added effects of race, class, disability, and sexual orientation.
Abstract
The papers further argue that culture and crime have become interchangeable injustices suffered by women and that culture conspires with privilege to exclude and exploit women with impunity. Individual papers detail the nature of feminist scholarship on education; analyze class, culture, and education; outline the misogynistic myths and assumptions of Canada’s rape laws; and examine issues related to prostitution. Further papers focus on gender and race within feminist thought, critically evaluate theories of female delinquency, and explore the processes and structures of the street work of squeegee children. Other articles analyze the language of law within exclusionary vocabularies and foreign lexicons, and discuss the position of female police officers in a police culture that rewards an esprit de corps that devalues the unique contributions of women. Chapter reference lists