Julia Simon-Kerr

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Unchaste and Incredible: The Use of Gendered Conceptions of Honor in Impeachment

117 Yale L.J. 1854 (2008). This Note demonstrates that the American rules for impeaching witnesses developed against a cultural background that equated a woman’s “honor,” and thus her credibility, with her sexual virtue. The idea that a woman’s chastity informs her credibility did not originate in rape trials and the confusing interplay between questions of consent and sexual history. Rather,...