Citadels of Pride : : Sexual Assault, Accountability, and Reconciliation

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Sites of struggle. Objectification: treating people as things ; Vices of domination: pride and greed ; Vices of victimhood: the weakness of the furies -- Law starts to confront the issues. The domain of legal action ; Accountability for sexual assault: a brief legal history ; Women in the proud male workplace: sexual harassment as sex discrimination ; Interlude: Thoughts about sexual assault on college campuses -- Recalcitrant citadels: the judiciary, arts, sports. Abuses of power and lack of accountability ; Pride and privilege: the federal judiciary ; Narcissism and impunity: the performing arts ; Masculinity and corruption: the sick world of college sports -- Conclusion: The way forward: accountability without malice, generosity without capitulation.
"An essential moral, philosophical, and practical reckoning with the laws we put in place to address the problem of sexual abuse and harassment. In this pathbreaking book, Martha C. Nussbaum brings necessary clarity to the societal challenges of sexual abuse and harassment, illuminating the pride and greed that lead men to objectify and dominate others, and the thirst for revenge that can distort the aims of justice. In the context of a clear and bracing legal history of accountability for sexual assault and the legal recognition of sexual harassment, Nussbaum confronts three "citadels of pride"-the judiciary, the arts, and sports. Exposing prideful privilege in the intellectual world, unpunished narcissism in the arts, and toxic masculinity and corruption in American sports, she discusses egregious cases of male entitlement leading to sexual abuse and exploitation. She examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts to address these situations, and proposes solutions; most controversially, that Division I football be disbanded. Laying out a hopeful way forward, Nussbaum offers a path to accountability without malice, and generosity without capitulation"-- Provided by publisher.

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