Sharon P Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon P Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon P |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2250-8115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Contrafatto Affair
In Paris, France on October 15, 1827, 28-year old Sicilian priest Joseph Contrafatto was sentenced for raping 5-year old Hortense Le Bon. This article frames the rhetorical strategies of the prosecution and defense using Robert Cover’s notion of judicial innovation, developed in his Justice Accused. Both sides based their arguments on articles 331 and 332 of the Criminal code. The Contrafatto Affair was an extraordinary case for rape legislation;…
Battles waged and won
Cultural blindness and ambiguity
In the long nineteenth century, crime reports in popular, sensationalistic broadsheets called canards sanglants contributed to making the crime of rape visible to a broader audience in France. The general public learned about heinous crimes, as vendors in public streets and squares shouted out and sang the papers’ titles and complaintes. Moreover, during the first third of the century, not only did statistical accounts of increasing crime make ra…
The Toleration and Erotization of Rape
Fairy tales encapsulate the enduring myths of a culture, encoding the traditions and the moral values by which we like to think we live. (Garton 289) Ce que le monde fournit au mythe, c est un r el historique, d fini, si loin qu il faille remonter, par la fa on dont les hommes l ont produit ou utilis ; et ce que le mythe restitue, c est une image naturelle de ce r el. [...] Le mythe ne nie pas les choses, sa fonction est au contraire d en parler:…
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The Toleration and Erotization of Rape
Fairy tales encapsulate the enduring myths of a culture, encoding the traditions and the moral values by which we like to think we live. (Garton 289) Ce que le monde fournit au mythe, c est un r el historique, d fini, si loin qu il faille remonter, par la fa on dont les hommes l ont produit ou utilis ; et ce que le mythe restitue, c est une image naturelle de ce r el. [...] Le mythe ne nie pas les choses, sa fonction est au contraire d en parler:…
Cultural blindness and ambiguity
In the long nineteenth century, crime reports in popular, sensationalistic broadsheets called canards sanglants contributed to making the crime of rape visible to a broader audience in France. The general public learned about heinous crimes, as vendors in public streets and squares shouted out and sang the papers’ titles and complaintes. Moreover, during the first third of the century, not only did statistical accounts of increasing crime make ra…
Battles waged and won
The Contrafatto Affair
In Paris, France on October 15, 1827, 28-year old Sicilian priest Joseph Contrafatto was sentenced for raping 5-year old Hortense Le Bon. This article frames the rhetorical strategies of the prosecution and defense using Robert Cover’s notion of judicial innovation, developed in his Justice Accused. Both sides based their arguments on articles 331 and 332 of the Criminal code. The Contrafatto Affair was an extraordinary case for rape legislation;…
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