Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash - Couverture rigide

Brodsky, Alexandra

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1250262542 ISBN 13 : 9781250262547

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2021

Synopsis

A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how institutions can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused
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In the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their assailants and broad societal change. Each prominent allegation, however, has also set off a wave of questions\-\-some posed in good faith, some distinctly not\-\-about the rights of the accused. The national conversation has grown polarized, inflamed by a public narrative that wrongly presents feminism and fair process as warring interests. Sexual Justice<\/i> is an intervention, pointing the way to common ground. Drawing on the core principles of civil rights law, and the personal experiences of victims and the accused, Alexandra Brodsky details how schools, workplaces, and other institutions can\-\-indeed, must\-\-address sexual harassment in ways fair to all. She shows why sexual harms cannot be treated solely as a criminal matter, but require a response from the organization where the abuse occurred. She outlines the key principles of fair proceedings, in which both parties get to present their side of the story to unbiased decision\-makers. And she explains how to resist the anti\-feminist backlash, which hijacks the rhetoric of due process to protect male impunity. Vivid and eye\-opening, at once legally rigorous and profoundly empathetic, Sexual Justice<\/i> clears up common misunderstandings about sexual harassment, traces the forgotten histories that underlie our current predicament, and illuminates the way to a more just world.<\/p>

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

<b>Alexandra Brodsky</b> is a civil rights lawyer with deep ties to the student movement to end campus gender violence. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Brodsky has written about sexual assault for the<i> New York Times</i>, the<i> Guardian</i>, the<i> Washington Post</i>, and the<i> Atlantic</i>, among many other publications. She lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250262542
• ISBN 13: 9781250262547
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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