Transforming a Rape Culture

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-02-08
Publisher(s): Milkweed Editions
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Summary

First published in 1993, Transforming a Rape Culture has provided a new understanding of sexual violence and its origins in this culture. This groundbreaking work seeks nothing less than fundamental cultural change: the transformation of basic attitudes about power, gender, race, and sexuality.

The editors thoroughly reviewed the book for this new edition, selecting eight new essays that address topics such as rape as war crime, sports and sexual violence, sexual abuse among the clergy, conflict between traditional mores and women's rights in the Asian American and Latin American communities, as well insightful analyses of cyberporn.

The diverse contributors are activists, opinion leaders, theologians, policymakers, educators, and authors of both genders. An excellent text for undergraduate classes in Women's Studies, Family Sociology or Criminal Justice, the book is being reissued on the 10th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act.

Table of Contents

Editors' Prefacep. 1
Living in a Rape Culture
Are We Really Living in a Rape Culture?p. 7
I Want A Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rapep. 11
Fraternities and the Rape Culturep. 23
Erotica vs. Pornographyp. 31
Twenty Years Later: The Unfinished Revolutionp. 47
Strategies for Change
"I just raped my wife! What are you going to do about it, Pastor?": The Church and Sexual Violencep. 57
Conversations of Consent: Sexual Intimacy without Sexual Assaultp. 87
The Language of Rapep. 101
I Thought You Didn't Mindp. 107
Clarence, William, Iron Mike, Tailhook, Senator Packwood, Spur Posse, Magic ... and Usp. 119
Creating Redemptive Imagery: A Challenge of Resistance and Creativityp. 139
How Rape Is Encouraged in American Boys and What We Can Do to Stop Itp. 153
On Becoming Anti-Rapistp. 165
Raising Girls for the 21st Centuryp. 179
Religion and Violence: The Persistence of Ambivalencep. 201
Making Rape an Election Issuep. 213
Activism
The Date Rape Play: A Collaborative Processp. 227
Outside In: A Man in the Movementp. 237
Training for Safehousep. 247
Model for a Violence-Free Statep. 255
Commodification of Women: Morning, Noon, and Nightp. 265
Civil Rights Antipornography Legislation: Addressing the Harm to Womenp. 283
In the Wake of Tailhook: A New Order for the Navyp. 301
No Laughing Matter: Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schoolsp. 311
Visions and Possibilities
The Veilsp. 335
The Lie of Entitlementp. 341
Seduced by Violence No Morep. 351
Radical Heterosexuality ... or How to Love a Man and Save Your Feminist Soulp. 359
comin to termsp. 369
In Praise of Insubordination, or, What Makes a Good Woman Go Bad?p. 375
A Woman with a Sword: Some Thoughts on Women, Feminism, and Violencep. 393
Transforming the Rape Culture That Lives in My Skullp. 405
Up from Brutality: Freeing Black Communities from Sexual Violencep. 417
Whose Body Is It, Anyway? Transforming Ourselves to Change a Rape Culturep. 427
The Not Yet Spokenp. 443
Organizations to Contactp. 451
Additional Readingp. 453
Index of Contributorsp. 457
Subject Indexp. 458
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