1st Edition
Rape And Society Readings On The Problem Of Sexual Assault
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the 1970s rape became the point of departure for an ongoing feminist examination of the subordination and sexual victimization of women. More recently, domestic violence, prostitution, sexual harassment, and pornography have come to the forefront of investigators' concerns. Rape and Society returns to the original focus on rape while also illuminating the interconnections among the many forms... Read more
Preface -- Feminist Foundations for the Study of Rape and Society -- Rape Poem -- The Trauma of Rape: The Case of Ms. X -- The Social Context of Rape: Sexual Scripts and Motivation -- Sex and Violence: A Perspective -- Hidden Rape: Sexual Aggression and Victimization in a National Sample of Students in Higher Education -- Why Men Rape -- Jay: An "Armchair" Rapist -- "Riding the Bull at Gilley's": Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape -- Considering Sex Offenders: A Model of Addiction -- Pornography as Sex Discrimination -- Varieties of Rape and Sexual Assault -- Child Sexual Abuse -- These Are the Things I Remember -- White Man Wants a Black Piece: The Case of Sonia Morrell -- Fraternities and Rape on Campus -- Types of Marital Rape -- The Sexual Politics of Murder -- Making Female Bodies the Battlefield -- Dispatch from Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Seventeen-Year-Old Survivor Testifies to Systematic Rape -- For a Paralyzed Woman Raped and Murdered While Alone in Her Own Apartment -- Rape and the Legal System -- Is It Rape? -- Jack and Ken -- Discrediting Victims' Allegations of Sexual Assault: Prosecutorial Accounts of Case Rejections -- Rape, Racism, and the Law -- Rape-Law Reform: Its Nature, Origins, and Impact -- Surviving and Preventing Rape -- Rape Trauma Syndrome -- When You Grow Up an Abused Child ... -- Raped: A Male Survivor Breaks His Silence -- And He Turned Around and Ran Away -- Conclusion -- Our Stunning Harvest -- Credits
Biography
Patricia Searles is professor of sociology and women's studies at University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, where Ronald J. Berger is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program. Patricia Searles is professor of sociology and women's studies at University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, where Ronald J. Berger is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program.
