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Professor Sameena Mulla Public Lecture

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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 ‘Moynihan Redux: How Courts Theorize Black Families in the Prosecution of Sexual Assault’

This talk traces the ways in which courts continue to frame Black families through the theories of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965, "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," a report whose sociological analysis has been debunked and challenged for decades. Professor Mulla shows how it stubbornly persists as a guiding lens within legal frameworks, informing court sentences in the United States. 

Professor Mulla is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University (U.S.). She uses anthropological methods to study the intersections of law, medicine and policing. She is the author of The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (NYU 2014), and the co-author of Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication (NYU 2021).  

 

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  • Professor Sameena Mulla -

    Professor Mulla is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University (U.S.). She uses anthropological methods to study the intersections of law, medicine and policing.

    She is the author of

    The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (NYU 2014),

    and the co-author of 

    Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication (NYU 2021).