TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braunmühl,Caroline
TI  - Colonial discourse and gender in U.S. criminal courts: cultural defenses and prosecutions 
T2  - Routledge advances in criminology
SN  - 9780415899253
AV  - KF9619 .B67 2012
U1  - 347.73008 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Cultural defense (Law)
KW  - United States
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -