Book contents
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
- Feminist Judgments Series
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments Series
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Part I Gendered Justice
- 1 Commentary on McQuirter v. State
- 2 Commentary on People v. Berry
- 3 Commentary on Coker v. Georgia
- 4 Commentary on Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
- 5 Commentary on State v. Rusk
- 6 Commentary on People v. Wu
- 7 Commentary on Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Bigfire
- 8 Commentary on Commonwealth v. Blache
- Part II Gender on Trial
3 - Commentary on Coker v. Georgia
from Part I - Gendered Justice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
- Feminist Judgments Series
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments Series
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Part I Gendered Justice
- 1 Commentary on McQuirter v. State
- 2 Commentary on People v. Berry
- 3 Commentary on Coker v. Georgia
- 4 Commentary on Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
- 5 Commentary on State v. Rusk
- 6 Commentary on People v. Wu
- 7 Commentary on Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Bigfire
- 8 Commentary on Commonwealth v. Blache
- Part II Gender on Trial
Summary
This vintage rape case concerns an Alabama court’s determination that the jury may consider “social conditions and customs founded upon racial differences, such that the prosecutrix was a white woman and the defendant was a Negro man” in assessing a Black defendant’s culpability for assault with intent to rape. This case represents how rape law was weaponized against Black men and is an ideal case for a feminist rewritten opinion to interrogate how race and rape are closely intertwined.
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- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions , pp. 50 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022