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050	0	0	_aKF9619 _b.B67 2012
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100	1		_aBraunmühl, Caroline.
245	1	0	_aColonial discourse and gender in U.S. criminal courts : _bcultural defenses and prosecutions / _cby Caroline Braunmühl.
246	3		_aColonial discourse and gender in United States criminal courts
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2012.
300			_axii, 281 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aRoutledge advances in criminology ; _v12
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aTheoretical 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.
650		0	_aCultural defense (Law) _zUnited States.
650		0	_aMinorities _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCriminal justice, Administration of _zUnited States.
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