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A Culture of Rape

2016
This project examines rape culture in American literature and society, exploring factors of rape culture through the narratives of literary protagonists and current women alike. Each chapter is grounded in a work of literature, which serves as a lens through which to analyze a factor of rape culture, and is then broadened in scope to incorporate recent
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Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures

Violence Against Women, 1996
Using the concepts of rape-free and rape-prone societies, I suggest that the next step for rape research is to investigate rape-free campus environments. Based on the articles in this volume and ethnographic research, I summarize what is known about rape-prone campus cultures and compare this information with rape-free fraternity cultures. The question
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Rape Culture Unveiled

2017
It is perhaps unsurprising, though nonetheless problematic, that communications technologies are being used to facilitate sexual violence against women and girls. In particular, smartphone applications, dating websites, social media platforms and intimate digital images are all being used to facilitate sexual assaults as well as to shame, humiliate and
Anastasia Powell, Nicola Henry
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Uncovering Rape Culture

Journalism Studies, 2017
This study examines the news content and experiences of male and female Indian journalists to explore and understand the influence of patriarchal socialization on newsgathering and reporting processes in coverage of the Delhi gang rape case of 2012. Findings suggest that many male and female journalists acknowledge the existence of sexist norms that ...
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Rape Cultures and Survivors

2018
An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors. Historically, women, men, and children have all suffered sexual violence, during wartime and peacetime as ...
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Rape Culture on Campus

2018
Rape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability.
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Oroonokos' Rape Cultures

Eighteenth-Century Studies
Abstract: This essay investigates the recurrence of rape and its deployment in Aphra Behn's and Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko s. It seeks to expose how iterative representations of Imoinda provide new possibilities for understanding how sexual violence contributes to formations of race and gender in the period. " Oroonoko s' rape cultures" identifies how
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Skepticism and Rape Culture

Abstract This chapter gives a case study about testimony and rape culture, illustrating ways that the negative epistemic bias often works to preserve oppressive features of the status quo. It argues that testimonial cases often generate obligations to believe, and interrogates the tendency to treat testimony about sexual harassment and ...
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A Cultural Perspective on Rape

1980
In the Trojan council, Paris argues against returning Helen to the Greeks: Sir, I propose not merely to myself The pleasures such a beauty brings with it; But I would have the soil for her fair rape Wiped off in honorable keeping her. What treason were it to the ransack’d queen, Disgrace to your great worths, and shame to
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