1st Edition
Accounting for Rape Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
1. Rape Supportive Culture. 2. The Social Psychology of Rape Perception. 3. Toward a Feminist Discourse Analysis of Accounts for Rape. 4. Talking about Female Rape: The Social Construction of Hazard/Risk and Accountability. 5. Making Sense of Male Rape. 6. Metaphors About Female and Male Rape. Conclusions.
Biography
Irina Anderson is a principal lecturer in Psychology at the University of East London.
Kathy Doherty is a principal lecturer in Communication Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
"Accounting for Rape provides a timely, in-depth critique of contemporary rape supportive culture in western societies. Anderson and Doherty offer compelling insights into the prejudices informing our understandings of sexual violence, including assumptions about the gendering of victims of rape. Presented in an accessible and engaging way, Accounting for Rape is destined to make a significant impact on contemporary scholarship on sexual violence and rape culture." - Annie Potts, University of Canterbury
"Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence is a timely and critical text... Accounting for Rape is worth the read; Anderson and Doherty present a compelling argument for rethinking our approaches to the study of rape and challenge us as scholars to reflect on our own research as a mechanism for producing knowledge, rather than simply a mechanism for disseminating it." - Jill Cermele, PsycCRITIQUES
"Anderson and Doherty have made a huge contribution to this understanding by approaching the socially endemic problem of rape and sexual violence from a unique perspective…Anderson and Doherty’s invaluable portrait of the phenomenon of rape takes a huge step towards understanding the evolution, maintenance, and hopefully abolishment of a pernicious problem within our society. I would thoroughly recommend this book to those wanting to expand their understanding of the feminist perspective of rape, as it provides an insightful and current analysis of how the phenomenon of rape can be explained."
– Amy Grubb, Journal of Sexual Aggression
