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One Night
Realities of Rape
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2002
Summary
One night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night, she lived a woman's worst nightmare as she was repeatedly raped and beaten by the stranger. The event changed her life into something resembling a Kafka novel: a justice system that bungled the case then blamed the victim, a social service system that provided no services or comfort, uneasy and awkward friends, exploitative media, and insensitive university administrators and colleagues. The pain of those four hours was dwarfed by the frustration of her decade-long fight to find the rapist and bring him to justice, ultimately through one of the first successful uses of DNA evidence in a rape case. Winkler, a brilliant observer and ethnographer, chronicles this struggle here—including her own growing awareness of her power to stare down district attorneys, to use the media to her own ends (including segments on 48 Hours and Court TV), and, ultimately through her persistence, to put the rapist behind bars for life. As a story of triumph over adversity, One Night is an inspirational work. And it provides a model of how researchers can turn the lens inward and incisively examine ourselves and our own world.
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Edition
1/2002
Copyright Year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0121-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1667-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
307
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Preface No access
CHAPTER 1 Another Rape Saga No access
CHAPTER 2 Rape as Social Murder No access
CHAPTER 3 Traumatized Evidence No access
CHAPTER 4 Chasing the Rapist No access
CHAPTER 5 It Was Just One Night No access
CHAPTER 6 Treating Trauma No access
CHAPTER 7 Confronting Institutional Barriers No access
CHAPTER 8 Judging Civil Justice No access
CHAPTER 9 Looking for Justice No access
CHAPTER 10 Confronting Status, not Justice No access
CHAPTER 11 Publicizing the Pain No access
CHAPTER 12 Judging Criminaljustice No access
EPILOGUE: RAPED THREE TIMES No access Pages 287 - 296
Bibliography No access Pages 297 - 300
Dedication and Acknowledgments No access Pages 301 - 306
