Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Legal storytelling and sexual violence; 2 Hegemonic masculinity and guilty feminine bodies; 3 Confronting the Japanese criminal justice system; 4 Credibility in the court: scripting rape; 5 'In truth she was probably very drunk': women subject; 6 Markers of truth: silencing women in the court; 7 Subversive stories and feminist strategies; 8 Conclusion; Appendix 1: legal definitions; Appendix 2: the cases; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable
