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Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Jyl Josephson
Jyl Josephson
Affiliation:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark
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Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States. By Carolyn E. Cocca. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2004. 228 pp. Paper $21.95.

Carolyn Cocca notes at the outset of her book that she is interested not only in the nuts and bolts of morality policy but also in how the narratives about those policies circulate and justify, in this case, the regulation of sexuality. The book breaks ground in its sustained attention to an issue that has been insufficiently addressed by political scientists.

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Politics & Gender , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 653 - 655
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© 2005 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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