images of beauty and defilement in judicial narratives of rape
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Harvard Women's Law Journal
- Magazine Year
- 1995
- Magazine Number
- spring
- Creator
- Binder, Lisa A.
- Thesaurus
- verkrachtingen, vrouwbeelden, slachtoffers, daders
- Description
- What purposes do descriptions of rape victims as beautiful or attractive serve? What do such descriptions tell us about the victim, and about ourselves? One way to address these questions is to look to the construction of facts and narratives in rape cases and to the role of imagination in imbuing these narratives with moral meaning.