Sexual Justice, Alexandra Brodsky
Sexual Justice, Alexandra Brodsky
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Sexual Justice
Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash

Author: Alexandra Brodsky

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2021


Synopsis

A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how we can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused, and exposing the sexism that shapes today's contentious debates about due process

Over the past few years, a remarkable number of sexual harassment victims have come forward with their stories, demanding consequences for their assailants and broad societal change. Each prominent allegation, however, has also set off a wave of questions – some posed in good faith, some distinctly not – about the rights of the accused. The national conversation has grown polarized, inflamed by a public narrative that wrongly presents feminism and fair process as warring interests.

Sexual Justice is an intervention, pointing the way to common ground. Drawing on core principles of civil rights law, and the personal experiences of victims and the accused, Alexandra Brodsky details how schools, workplaces, and other institutions can – indeed, must – address sexual harms in ways fair to all. She shows why these allegations cannot be left to police and prosecutors alone, and outlines the key principles of fair proceedings outside the courts. Brodsky explains how contemporary debates continue the long, sexist history of “rape exceptionalism,” in which sexual allegations are treated as uniquely suspect. And she calls on listeners to resist the anti-feminist backlash that hijacks the rhetoric of due process to protect male impunity.

Vivid and eye-opening, at once intellectually rigorous and profoundly empathetic, Sexual Justice clears up common misunderstandings about sexual harassment, traces the forgotten histories that underlie our current predicament, and illuminates the way to a more just world.

A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books

About Alexandra Brodsky

Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer with deep ties to the student movement to end campus gender violence. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Brodsky has written about sexual assault for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, among many other publications. She lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Quin

This one is fairly disappointing, but makes some salutary points. Brodsky is a civil rights attorney with a pedigree of feminist anti-harassment activism on college campuses. She makes clear her commitment to justice for survivors and an end to sexual harassment. So I take her more seriously than I......more

Goodreads review by Jennie

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this book. On one hand, I do understand on a surface level what this book is trying to say. There were just a bit too many legal details for me to really fully understand it. On the other hand, I was a little unsure about what the book was saying. I do think th......more

Goodreads review by K

We love nuance!!......more

Goodreads review by Max

This is really a wonderful book. Everything is so convincingly argued as to seem entirely obvious, even though the argument itself -- that institutions other than courts have to deal with all kinds of accusations of wrongdoing, that the fact that sexual misconduct has to do with sex has no bearing o......more