2nd Edition

Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape

By Nicola Gavey Copyright 2005
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, analysing recent research to examine the psychological and cultural conditions of possibility for contemporary sexual violence. Just Sex? argues that feminist theory on sexual victimization has gone both too far and not far enough. It presents the... Read more

PART 1 RAPE IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT

Chapter 1 Rape as a social problem

Chapter 2 The discovery of a rape epidemic

PART 2 GENDER, POWER, AND SEXUALITY – AND THE LIMITS OF INDIVIDUAL CHOICE

Chapter 3 The social construction of sex, subjectivity, and the body

Chapter 4 Heterosexuality under the microscope

Chapter 5 Unsexy sex: Unwanted sex, sexual coercion, and rape

PART 3 GOING TOO FAR, NOT GOING FAR ENOUGH

Chapter 6 Can a woman be raped and not know it?

Chapter 7 Turning the tables? Women raping men

Chapter 8 Toward ending rape

PART 4 REJOINDER FOR THE SECOND EDITION

Chapter 9 The gender of rape culture: Revisiting the cultural scaffolding of rape

 

 

Biography

Nicola Gavey is Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.