Showing posts with label Estelle B. Freedman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Estelle B. Freedman. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 March 2014
Monday, 24 February 2014
Manufacturing Consent: Estelle B. Freedman's "Redefining Rape"
Annie Shields, Los Angeles Review of Books
IN SEPTEMBER 2011, the FBI released its 82nd annual Uniform
Crime Report (UCR). Up to this point, the agency had only counted one very
specific type of rape in the UCR: rapes of females by vaginal intercourse
committed by males through the use of force. It did not count rape of men or boys.
It did not count rapes of transgender people. It did not count assaults
involving forced anal or oral sex. Frequently, it did not count rapes in which
victims were unconscious or unable to consent because of physical or mental
disabilities, or assaults in which drugs or alcohol were used to inhibit the
victim’s capacity to resist.
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