Language, Gender, and Sexual Violence

Abstract

In this chapter, I focus on legal practices and processes associated with sexual assault and domestic violence in Canada and the United States. I begin by examining scholarship that has investigated trial discourse and then move on to consider research that has traced the “movement” of talk from trials or pre-trial interviews to other sites in the legal system, such as appellate decisions and affidavits. In both cases, I attempt to elucidate the force of gendered ideologies and institutional practices in the legal system, specifically, how they both regulate the kinds of gendered identities participants can take up and create the lens through which such identities are assessed and evaluated.

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