Introduction 1. The Techno-Visual Logics of the Tracked, Raped Body on Screen 2. Putting Her Back Together Again: Visualizing the Rape, Trauma, and Recovery in Screen Media 3. Sexual Trauma, Testimony, and Digital Technology in Rape TV and Film 4. Nature as Refuge: Space in the Rape-Revenge Narrative; Conclusion
Biography
Alex Bevan is a researcher of media culture and gender violence. Formally a Senior Lecturer in Communication at the University of Queensland, Australia, she moved into the field of data science to pursue the same questions around feelings of safety, wellbeing, identity, and respect, online and off. She is broadly published in the areas of television studies, gender, and digital cultures.
This timely and incisive book interrogates the enduring power of the stranger rape narrative and its entanglement with technology in contemporary media. By asking what the relationship is between rape and technology – and why this partnership persists – the book offers a compelling critique of how cultural attention is strategically misdirected away from patriarchy as the root of gender-based violence. Engaging with digitality not only as a site of harm but also of possibility, the book is part of a crucial and growing body of scholarship that grapples with the complexities of sexual violence in the digital age. Through nuanced analyses of concepts such as the tracked body, trauma, and revenge, it reveals the discursive work rape performs within technological discourse, demanding we reconsider how violence is represented, understood, and ultimately challenged.
Kaitlynn Mendes, Professor of Sociology, Western University
