...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...

... our political sympathies and energies without triggering the quarantining moralism—the liberal logic—of the figure of the consenting adult. The first part of this essay, “Offending Sex in Orleans Parish,” describes a legal peculiarity and its ensuing politicization that is the motivating case study...

... of offenders. Others have noted the perils of a feminism aligned with the carceral state insofar as it envisions criminal prosecution of offenders as a primary mode of redress. 1 I aim to suggest that buried in these debates lies a more fundamental set of questions about the nature of activism...

... children (Demosthenes 23. 53).17 This law provides for a primitive self-help procedure. It should be noted that it does not require the killing of a sexual offender caught in the above-named circumstances, but it allows a man who kills such an offender under these circumstances to be free from...

... called Megan’s Law, which requires the registration of convicted sex offenders. The story of how Megan became cemented in the national imagination demonstrates what discursively happens to a body transformed by violence...

... —that is, to the extent that she rejects camp. In the summer of 2015, a few weeks after Caitlyn Jenner debuted on the cover of Vanity Fair , this posture became explicit when a Pride parade in Glasgow attempted to ban drag queens from the event out of concern that drag performers would offend transgender attendees...

... by recommending, based on their findings, hospitalization instead of imprisonment. In the twentieth century, this therapeutic, instead of strictly punitive, approach would come to popularize chemical castration for people convicted of sex with minors—offenders who, as Jouy was considered to be “incited” by his...

... combinations, belong together nonetheless. They offend propriety—in relationships, in art, in language, in love, and in thought—and in doing so, bring to our attention the presumptions that subtend our intellectual and political investments. Why should the fact of difference—even radical difference—necessarily...

... recent events.—Editors Oops! I hope I haven’t offended anyone, as a white woman using a black colloquialism, but some of my best friends are African Americans, and I am perhaps a little too in the habit of getting down with the people like my fellow white liberals, such as my homey Bill Maher...

... be hard—even injurious—to let go of the ideal because our love objects not only reflect on us but in some way become us. Bryant and the challenge of a restorative response to sexual violence on the part of the offender is an intriguing shadow to the Nate Parker story. At the same time that Parker...

... as already criti- cal, the lived world as already doing science, busily generating theories of itself? Rather than engaging again and again with the impossibility of the “new” (as in “new feminist materialisms an announcement in danger of offending the marginally established, Feminist Theory Out...

... that acknowledges the impossibility of wiping all offenders from the map. A feminist scaled solidarity abandons all-or-nothing responses when it recognizes that transformation for some perpetrators might mean salvation for all of us. 1 Sally J. Scholz argues that political solidarity is always about...

... landscape. And it apparently conducted its business openly. unprotected frorn the knoing gaze of passers-by. (Both rnale and fernale prostitution rnust have been legal. for the city of Athens collected a special tax from the earnings of male and female prostitutes alike. )20 Aeschines cannot risk offending...

...: "When Jesus said, 'If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out,' he was beside the point. The eye doesn't really offend us. We are rather fond of our own squint eye. It only offends the person who cares for us. And it's up to this person to pluck it out" (190). 14 Scandale, Dec. 1933 (qtd. in Guillant 888...

... of themselves having sex without becoming “sex offenders.” So even though their names cannot be published because they are minors, they will have to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives (Kimpel 299). 9 For more on the habit, see Chun, Habitual . 10 We do not refer to the young...

... caused by her “appearance in company” in order to move her bowels (105). Even if she decided to con- tent herself with a solitary life, remaining secluded from others so as not to experience the fear that she might offend them...

... at the psychology ofmale professors in general. In her note to the second edition, Dziech discusses a problem in the reception ofthe first edition: "Too many assume that it's a sweeping indictment of all males in the profession instead of an attempt to differentiate the offenders from the vast majority of male...

...” 283). 54 Butler is right that Arendt is particularly offended by this claim made by Eichmann, but if we take this to be his crime, the death sentence has no ground. Eichmann’s thoughtlessness, in Arendt’s view, is not his crime. 55 It is what allowed him to commit his crimes without recognizing...

... the value of confessions as evidence, despite the fact that the collaborative process of composing these confessions offends against standards for scientific evidence emerging in early modern Europe. According to these emergent standards, Lorraine Daston argues, facts could no longer "qualify as credible...

... was the tragic specter of her babies who “fail to thrive” ( Adler et al. 40 ), who were imagined, as Ana Teresa Ortiz and Laura Briggs describe, as “damaged beyond repair” (41), and the animalized figure of the drug-fueled “youthful offender,” “a human predator” and “habitual criminal” ( Reagan ). “Nothing...