....” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 22:3 ( 1997 ): 519 -44. Mullen, Anne, and Emer O'Beirne, eds. Crime Scenes:Detective Narratives in European Culture since 1945 . Amsterdam,Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000 . Müller, Heiner. Hamletmachine. In Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage...

...Lila Abu-Lughod The “honor crime” poses perhaps more starkly than any other contemporary cultural-legal category the dilemmas of feminist scholarship and rights activism in a transnational world. Marked as a culturally specific form of violence and given a special and stigmatizing association...

..., and the Mode of Excess . New Haven : Yale UP , 1976 . Chaulot Paul , and Susini Jean . Le Crime en France . Paris : Hachette , 1959 . Chevalier Dr. Julien . “ De l'inversion sexuelle aux points de vue clinique, anthropologique et médico-légale .” Archives d'anthropologie...

..., and Sylvia Walby. Sex Crime in the News . New York: Routledge, 1991 . Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture . Ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Chicago: u of Illinois p, 1988 . 271 -331. Tekeli, Sirin. Kadinlar Icin [For Women...

...Dicle Koğacioğlu This article begins with the observation that the honor crime (the murder of a woman by her family because of actual or deemed sexual acts that are considered an offense to the culturally defined terms of family honor) has received increasing attention in Turkey during the last...

...Terrance Wooten “Sex offender” is used in two senses. First, it is a legal category that defines individuals who have been convicted of specific sex crimes. These crimes range in degree and severity but predominantly consider themes of violence, predation, and propriety. In popular representation...

...Timothy Bewes This article discusses Dicle Koğacıoğlu's 2004 essay “The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey.” It considers Koğacıoğlu's formulation of the “tradition effect” in the light of several other “effects” put forward by social theorists and philosophers: the “individual effect...

... of sex as crime, the confessional risks and rewards of “testimony,” the sadomasochism of Catharine MacKinnon’s influential work, and the political necessity of refusing visibility and speech as the ascribed priorities for black feminist sexual freedom. The final thematic foregrounds the university...

... the reception of the Eichmann trial is that between crimes against humanity and crimes against the Jews. The former was the charge leveled at Nuremberg, the latter, the charge leveled at the Jerusalem trial. Unlike the other binaries we have looked at, however, this one does not mislead, nor is it responsible...

... vaginal, oral, and anal sex in exchange for money. The “crime against nature” (hereafter can) statute, through judicial interpretation, covers only oral and anal sex in exchange for money (La. Rev. Stat. 14:89). Both laws cover...

... of the Phallus .” Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne . Trans. Rose Jacqueline . Ed. Mitchell Juliet and Rose . New York : Norton , 1982 . 74 - 85 . Lacan Jacques . “ Motifs du crime paranoïque: le crime des soeurs Papin .” 1933 . Obliques 2 ( 1972...

.... Cambridge: Cambridge up, 2004 . 116 -42. Murphy, Jeffrie G. “Crime and Punishment.” Jeffrie G. Murphy and Jules L. Coleman. Philosophy of Law: An Introduction to Jurisprudence . Boulder, co: Westview, 1990 . 113 -65. Nathanson, Stephen. An Eye for an Eye?: The Morality of Punishing by Death...

... as so many ciphered communications. Among Kracauer’s preferred sites for such culture-critical detective work, the one he returns to repeatedly, like the scene of a particularly opaque crime...

... African-American/Latino lives of 88 percent of the American woman, living a more than unconven- public. tional lifestyle in a high crime area, and —Mike, posting to the SkaroffBlog now she’s missing—big surprise...

... like to thank the fiercest feminist scholar I know, Talia Schaffer, who has stewarded, improved, and fought for this project from its beginnings. 1 The trend toward legal specification looks like a tendency toward narrower definitions of sexual crimes, and it is. Simultaneously, however...

... on the connection. The first is “the unconscious sense of guilt” expe- rienced by those who have not committed any crime, the topic of Freud’s essay, “Criminals from a Sense of Guilt.” Mitchell makes use of this example to support the idea...

... in the first child’s place; but with my parents covered up in death, no brother for me, ever, could be born. Such was the law by which I honored you. But Creon thought the doing was a crime, a dreadful daring, brother of my heart” ( Sophocles 72 ). In her lamentations, there are two fundamental demands...

... Crime . Bowling Green : Bowling Green State U Popular P , 1987 . Channell David F. The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life . New York : Oxford UP , 1991 . Clover Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film . Princeton : Princeton...

..., inspired by an uncategorizable encounter with the death drive at work in a singular body, a subject—even if he happens to be a police officer—invents a new category to arraign this crime without discernable criminality; it unintentionally founds a new criminology of the absolutely singular. Petit is fond...

... Thought .” Feminist Studies 9 : 1 ( 1983 ): 7 – 25 . Greer Germaine . The Female Eunuch . New York : Bantam , 1970 . Griffen Susan . “ Rape: The All-American Crime .” Ramparts 10 . 3 ( 1971 ). Rpt. Vetterling-Brown 313 – 33 . Hanisch Carol . “ What Women Can...