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“I Know You Want It”: Teaching the Blurred Lines of Eighteenth-Century Rape Culture
“‘I Know You Want It’: Teaching the Blurred Lines of Eighteenth-Century Rape Culture” is a collaborative pedagogical article that addresses the problem of so-called “post-feminism” in the contemporary college classroom by way of a comparative approach to
Emily J. Dowd-Arrow, Sarah R. Creel
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Social media is becoming a valuable resource for hosting activism as illustrated in the rise of the hashtag movements, such as #MeToo and #Endrapeculture, used to speak out against rape culture.
Zaida Orth +3 more
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Background: Despite the high incidence of estimated sexual assault on college campuses, underreporting is substantial and perpetuated by a culture of rape myths that are pervasive across society in general and college campuses. Aim: The aim of this study
Jill Schwarz +2 more
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This essay, written for the Kansas Law Review Symposium on Campus Sexual Assault, critically analyzes “anti-rape culture” ― a set of empirical claims about rape’s prevalence, causes, and effects and a set of normative ideas about sex, gender, and institutional authority ― which has heralded a new era of discipline, in all senses of the word, on college
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“A most detestable crime”. Representations of Rape in the Popular Press of Early Modern England
In early modern England the legal definition of rape underwent an important revision and gradually, from crime against property, rape became a crime against the person. While reflecting the classical, medieval and biblical assumptions, the period brought
Donatella Pallotti
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From knowledge to violence: the epistemic dimension of sexual violence testimony
The aim of this article is to highlight the epistemic dimension present in the testimony of victims of sexual violence, which takes place through various mechanisms of epistemic injustice, whether testimonial or hermeneutic.
Aurora Georgina Bustos Arellano
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In 1983, Andrea Dworkin addressed the Midwest Men’s Conference in Minneapolis. She discussed the rape culture in which we live, noted the similarities between rape and war, and, following the title of her talk, asked for a “24-hour truce in which there is no rape.” And she asked why men and boys are so slow to understand that women and girls “are human
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This paper focuses on a team-taught gender studies colloquium in the spring term of 2016 at Phillips Academy at Andover. Having heard the loud and clear message coming down from college campuses and being familiar with their harrowing statistics of ...
Flavia Vidal, Tasha Hawthorne
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This article focuses on sexual violence and the learned fear of rape experienced by women in their use of public space, understood as social constructions of a system of domination.
María Silvestre Cabrera +2 more
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In Indonesia, most people still adhere to a patriarchal system that allows the practice of violence against women to exist and be understood, even preserved, and become the foundation for the formation of rape culture. Because the root of rape culture is a patriarchal culture where the meeting point lies in the assumption that men are higher than women
Haryati S Slamet +2 more
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