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Gendered Hate: Exploring Gender in Hate Crime Law, by Jessica P. Hodge. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2011. 181 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9781555537470.
Jessica Hodge provides an interesting and thought-provoking look on how bias (hate) crime legislation in New Jersey simultaneously protects and neglects women. Hodge's goal was to explore what factors facilitated the inclusion of gender into New Jersey's hate crime statute and how the category has been used since its inclusion. Although gender - conceptualized here as women - is included as a protected group in hate crime statutes, Hodge...