Braunmühl, Caroline. <br/><br/>
Colonial discourse and gender in U.S. criminal courts :  cultural defenses and prosecutions / 
 Colonial discourse and gender in United States criminal courts 
by Caroline Braunmühl. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2012. 
 - xii, 281 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge advances in criminology ;  12 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Theoretical perspective -- The corpus of cases -- Ethnicizing prosecutions and defenses : "culture" and "gender" in trial parties' argumentative strategies and in the debate about "the cultural defense" -- Biases and blindspots in the debate -- Cultural profiling : the patriarchal other : first case study -- "Cultural defense" I : the oppressed third world woman : second case study -- "Cultural defense" II : the patriarchal other : third case study -- Conclusion: cultural information or gendered colonial discourse? -- Resistance/instabilities : the spectrum of discursive politics in trials involving "cultural evidence" and the involuntary subversion of hegemonic discourse -- Contesting "cultural evidence" : adversarial opposition or mutual collusion? -- Witnesses and hegemonic consensus -- Beyond mere "resistance" : the spectrum of instabilities fracturing hegemonic trial discourse and what difference they make -- Conclusion: practical/theoretical implications. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415899253 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011039708 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cultural defense (Law)--United States.<br/>Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.<br/>Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF9619  / .B67 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>347.73008