Joanne Conaghan is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. Yvette Russell is Associate Professor in Law and Feminist Theory at the University of Bristol.
"""Can women count on law? When women complain of violent sexual crime, can they expect to be properly heard as rational legal subjects? This book shows how and why medieval male mythology about women's sexuality, credibility and mendacity still make its way into the modern criminal court room, especially the rape trial. This book is a powerful, even devastating, critique of criminal justice as women experience it."" Ngaire Naffine, The University of Adelaide"