Unspeakable Subjects, Impossible Rights: Sexuality, Integrity and Criminal Law

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-68

  Lacey, Nicola ^a  

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EID: 85007557262     PISSN: 08418209     EISSN: 20564260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0841820900001685     Document Type: Review

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5. Drucilla Cornell, Beyond Accommodation (New York: Routledge, 1991).
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7. Nancy Fraser, Justice Interruptus (New York: Routledge, 1997), ch. 6.
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9. The direction of such work is perhaps best exemplified by Catharine MacKinnon's Feminism Unmodified (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987).
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30. Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells & Dirk Meure, Reconstructing Criminal Law (London: Butterworths, 1990), ch. 5;
31. Andrew Ashworth, Principles of Criminal Law, 2d ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), 25-28, 337-58.
32. Since the enactment of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, Consensual adult male same-sex sexual conduct has been lawful, but only when it takes place 'in private' (s.l).
33. Good examples here include the offence of indecent assault (Sexual Offences Act 1956, 14-15).
34. R. v. Court, [1987] 1 ALL ER 120
35. Sexual Offences Act 1956;
36. The offence of kerb-crawling created by the Sexual Offences Act 1985, 1;
37. R. v. Brown, [1993] 2 ALL ER 73.
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39. The 'harm principle' derives from John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty (1859; reprint, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974);
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53. Shall return below to the question of how far this remains a convincing account of legal discourse.
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59. Furthermore, Until the Sexual Offences Act 1956 was amended by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, only women could be raped.
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