Maria Bevacqua
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Bevacqua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Bevacqua |
| SIGNATURE | BEVACQUA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Minnesota State University , Minnesota, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Challenging Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement’s Decline
A recent trend in scholarship characterizes the anti-rape movement as founded with radical goals and achieving success at reforming rape laws, but then declining because of co-optation by the state. This article challenges narratives of decline in light of the history of the anti-rape movement and current anti-rape activism. By focusing their critique on criminal justice and therapeutic approaches to sexual violence, and failing to account for th…
Rose Corrigan, Up Against a Wall
Book review of Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success by Rose Corrigan (New York University, 2013)
III. Feminist Theory and the Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage
III. Feminist Theory and the Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage
For feminists, the question of lesbian and gay marriage is, or should be, inextri-cably bound to the ongoing critique of marriage as an institution. That critique originates in the theoretical and practical indictment of all social institutions, built upon inequality and exclusion, which function as tools of male dominance. The existing political movement to acquire marriage rights for lesbians and gays appears to avoid this critique; instead, in…
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
This paper considers issues of violence against women through the conceptual lens of public/private ideology, exploring numerous ways that the public/private dichotomy is reinforced in the law and public policy of rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. We argue that the power of this ideology continues into the contemporary law of gendered violence, as evidenced most recently by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Morrison (…
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Challenging Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement’s Decline
A recent trend in scholarship characterizes the anti-rape movement as founded with radical goals and achieving success at reforming rape laws, but then declining because of co-optation by the state. This article challenges narratives of decline in light of the history of the anti-rape movement and current anti-rape activism. By focusing their critique on criminal justice and therapeutic approaches to sexual violence, and failing to account for th…
III. Feminist Theory and the Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage
For feminists, the question of lesbian and gay marriage is, or should be, inextri-cably bound to the ongoing critique of marriage as an institution. That critique originates in the theoretical and practical indictment of all social institutions, built upon inequality and exclusion, which function as tools of male dominance. The existing political movement to acquire marriage rights for lesbians and gays appears to avoid this critique; instead, in…
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
This paper considers issues of violence against women through the conceptual lens of public/private ideology, exploring numerous ways that the public/private dichotomy is reinforced in the law and public policy of rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. We argue that the power of this ideology continues into the contemporary law of gendered violence, as evidenced most recently by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Morrison (…
III. Feminist Theory and the Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage
III. Feminist Theory and the Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage
For feminists, the question of lesbian and gay marriage is, or should be, inextri-cably bound to the ongoing critique of marriage as an institution. That critique originates in the theoretical and practical indictment of all social institutions, built upon inequality and exclusion, which function as tools of male dominance. The existing political movement to acquire marriage rights for lesbians and gays appears to avoid this critique; instead, in…
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
This paper considers issues of violence against women through the conceptual lens of public/private ideology, exploring numerous ways that the public/private dichotomy is reinforced in the law and public policy of rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. We argue that the power of this ideology continues into the contemporary law of gendered violence, as evidenced most recently by the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Morrison (…
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Rose Corrigan, Up Against a Wall
Book review of Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success by Rose Corrigan (New York University, 2013)
Challenging Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement’s Decline
A recent trend in scholarship characterizes the anti-rape movement as founded with radical goals and achieving success at reforming rape laws, but then declining because of co-optation by the state. This article challenges narratives of decline in light of the history of the anti-rape movement and current anti-rape activism. By focusing their critique on criminal justice and therapeutic approaches to sexual violence, and failing to account for th…
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works) · Law (2 works)