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...curious logic which he later applies to all history including his own. But it includes a view of women that harks back to the era of courtly love, "It is no longer possible to 'fall in love'," he says early on, "But in the future and with the New Woman it will be." His focus is too narrow: he conceives of the New Woman rather than a New Voice, or a New Person. About the position of women in his future utopia he sounds suspiciously like Stokely Carmichael...
Freedom? The New Woman will have perfect freedom. She will be free to be a lady or a whore...
...willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral ambivalence? Moreover, we first meet him and his elite unit in Warsaw, putting themselves at risk in a vain attempt to rescue a young Jewish woman from the SS. Thus they are immediately established as gallant lads, holding nothing but contempt for deplorable national policies they have, in any case, been too busy on the Russian front to consider very deeply...
Georgia is the only state with a law calling for the death penalty for rape of an adult woman (Florida and Mississippi provide for execution for the rape of children). A local jury, after noting Coker's previous convictions for rape-murder and rape-kidnaping, ordered him to the electric chair. But Attorney Kendall contended before the Supreme Court Justices that death was so infrequently inflicted on rapists that its imposition violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Of 42 men convicted of rape in Georgia since 1973, 38 received only prison sentences...
Although both Coker and his victim were white, Kendall marshaled historical and statistical data to show that execution for rape was based on race. Before the Civil War, Georgia law was typical of Southern statutes in specifying that a white man raping a black woman could draw a fine or imprisonment "at the discretion of the court," while a slave or "free person of color" even attempting to rape a white woman could be put to death. Supposedly color-blind postwar laws were selectively enforced: since 1930, when accurate record keeping was started, 89% of the 455 rapists executed...