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Download full textRenner, K. Edward; Yurchesyn, Kathaleen A. – 1992
Political efforts by feminists in the 1970s and early 1980s resulted in the redefinition of rape as physical assault in Canada's 1983 rape law in the Criminal Code. This paper argues that treating a woman's sexuality as "property," as did the rape law prior to 1983, was correct. Redefining rape as sexual assault, and measuring the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Criminal Law, Females, Foreign Countries
