Rape On The Public Agenda
Author: Maria Bevacqua
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2000-08-10
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781555534462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the history, development, and impact of the feminist anti-rape movement.
Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Maria Bevacqua
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2000-08-10
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781555534462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the history, development, and impact of the feminist anti-rape movement.
Author: Nancy A. Matthews
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-11-28
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1134921446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublic thinking about sexual assault over the last two decades has changed dramatically for the better. Activists in rape crisis centers can claim a feminist success story, but not always as they would choose. Through her study of six rape crisis centers in Los Angeles, Nancy Matthews shows how the State has influenced rape crisis work by supporting the therapeutic aspects of the anti-rape movement's agenda, and pushing feminist rape crisis centers towards conventional frameworks of social service provision, while ignoring the feminist political agenda of transforming gender relations and preventing rape.
Author: Bevacqua Maria R.
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caroline Heldman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1498554024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 40 years of activists working to reduce sexual violence on college campuses, in 2014, the new Campus Anti-Rape Movement (CARM) finally put this issue on the national policy agenda. President Barack Obama credited “an inspiring wave of student-led activism” for catapulting campus rape into public consciousness. This book positions the new CARM within a long history of anti-sexual violence activism in the U.S. The authors describe the major events of this new movement and how it coalesced. The authors also analyze the new CARM through a social movement lens, and examine the role of new laws and social media in facilitating movement successes. The book argues that the new CARM laid the groundwork for the emergence of #MeToo, the highest profile campaign against sexual harassment/violence to date in U.S. history.
Author: Kristin Bumiller
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-04-25
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 082238907X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an Abusive State puts forth a powerful argument: that the feminist campaign to stop sexual violence has entered into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state. Kristin Bumiller chronicles the evolution of this alliance by examining the history of the anti-violence campaign, the production of cultural images about sexual violence, professional discourses on intimate violence, and the everyday lives of battered women. She also scrutinizes the rhetoric of high-profile rape trials and the expansion of feminist concerns about sexual violence into the international human-rights arena. In the process, Bumiller reveals how the feminist fight against sexual violence has been shaped over recent decades by dramatic shifts in welfare policies, incarceration rates, and the surveillance role of social-service bureaucracies. Drawing on archival research, individual case studies, testimonies of rape victims, and interviews with battered women, Bumiller raises fundamental concerns about the construction of sexual violence as a social problem. She describes how placing the issue of sexual violence on the public agenda has polarized gender- and race-based interests. She contends that as the social welfare state has intensified regulation and control, the availability of services for battered women and rape victims has become increasingly linked to their status as victims and their ability to recognize their problems in medical and psychological terms. Bumiller suggests that to counteract these tendencies, sexual violence should primarily be addressed in the context of communities and in terms of its links to social disadvantage. In an Abusive State is an impassioned call for feminists to reflect on how the co-optation of their movement by the neoliberal state creates the potential to inadvertently harm impoverished women and support punitive and racially based crime control efforts.
Author: Joyce E. Williams
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1981-12-23
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first in-depth empirical study that goes beyond the initial trauma of rape and considers the interplay between society and the experience of rape, the interaction between the victim and her own social world.
Author: Pallavi Guha
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021-02-12
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1978805748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India. Including 75 interviews with feminist activists and journalists working across India, it proposes a framework of agenda-building and establishes a theoretical framework to examine media coverage of issues in the digitally emerging Global South.
Author: Nancy A. Matthews
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994-09-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780203993033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublic thinking about sexual assault over the last two decades has changed dramatically for the better. Activists in rape crisis centers can claim a feminist success story, but not always as they would choose. Through her study of six rape crisis centers in Los Angeles, Nancy Matthews shows how the State has influenced rape crisis work by supporting the therapeutic aspects of the anti-rape movement's agenda, and pushing feminist rape crisis centers towards conventional frameworks of social service provision, while ignoring the feminist political agenda of transforming gender relations and preventing rape.
Author: Lisa M. Cuklanz
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses high profile rape cases in the context of rape law reform efforts and analyzes how differing views of rape are covered by the media
Author: Robin E. Field
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2020-07-15
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1942954840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction identifies a new genre of American fiction, the rape novel, that recenters narratives of sexual violence on the survivors of violence and abuse, rather than the perpetrators. The rape novel arose during the women’s liberation movement as women writers collectively challenged the traditional erasure of female subjectivity and agency found in earlier representations of sexual violence in American fiction. The rape novel not only foregrounds survivors and their stories in a textual centering that affirms their dignity and self-worth, but also develops new narratological strategies for portraying violent, disturbing subject matter. In bringing together many key women’s texts of the last decades of the 20th century, the rape novel demonstrates the centrality of sexual assault to women’s fiction of this era. The rape novels of the 21st century continue the political activism inherent in the genre—educating readers, offering community to survivors, and encouraging social activism—as the stories of male survivors are increasingly told. A radical reconsideration of late twentieth-century American novels, Writing the Survivor underscores the importance of women’s activism upon the novel’s form and content and reveals the portrayal of rape as rape to be an interethnic imperative.