Susan Ehrlich

Ehrlich examines the transcripts from a York University disciplinary tribunal and a criminal court trial dealing with the same instance of sexual assault in which two women accused the same man. She argues that certain ideological frames, like the paradigm of utmost resistance, serve to limit the ways in which the women accusing the man can articulate their experiences. This leads to a reformulating of the assault as consensual sex by the defense--a reformulation that is partially accepted by the legal and extra-legal bodies involved.… (mehr)