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New Article About Gender Neutrality in Rape Law

By Corey Rayburnyung

Philip Rumney of the University of the West of England has posted his new article Gender Neutrality, Rape and Trial Talk onto SSRN. The article appears in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. From the abstract: This article examines the notion of gender neutrality in rape, its meaning and why rape definitions that include females and males as potential victims of rape have become influential in those jurisdictions that have engaged in significant levels of rape law reform over the last four decades. In so doing, several of Annabelle Mooney's criticisms of gender neutral rape laws, published in an earlier article, will be critically examined. The second part of this article draws on themes that have been identified in the linguistic analysis of rape trials involving female complainants and applies those themes to two cases of rape and sexual assault involving male complainants...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).