| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 424 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Living in a rape culture. Are we really living in a rape culture? -- I want a twenty-four hour truce during which there is no rape / Andrea Dworkin -- The triad of violence in men's sports / Michael Messner -- Rape, color, and global feminism: a converging consciousness / Sun Yung Shin -- Still no laughing matter: sexual harassment in K-12 schools / Nan Stein -- "I just raped my wife! What are you going to do about it, Pastor?": The church and sexual violence / Carol J. Adams -- Unmasking the pornography industry: from fantasy to reality / Gail Dines -- Maneuvers: when soldiers rape / Cynthia Enloe -- Strategies and activism. The language of rape / Helen Benedict -- "Why did he want to hurt me? All I ever did was love him": Understanding sexual violence in Latino marriages / Yvette G. Flores -- Men, masculinity, and the rape culture / Michael Kimmel -- How rape is encouraged in American boys and what we can do to stop it / Myriam Miedzian -- On becoming antirapist / Haki R. Madhubuti -- Sexual abuse by religious leaders / Marie M. Fortune -- Hmong women's peace / MayKao Yangblongsua Hang and Tru Hang Thao -- Raising girls in the twenty-first century / Emilie Buchwald -- Learning to listen: one man's work in the antirape movement / Richard S. Orton -- The date rape play: a collaborative process / Carolyn Levy -- Making rape an election issue / John Stoltenberg -- Establishing rape as a war crime / Vesna Kesić -- Visions and possibilties. Seduced by violence no more / bell hooks -- The lie of entitlement / Terrence Crowley -- A woman with a sword: some thoughts on women, feminism, and violence / D.A. Clarke -- In praise of insubordination, or, What makes a good woman go bad / Inés Hernández-Avila -- Up from brutality: freeing black communities from sexual violence / W.J. Musa Moore-Foster -- coming to terms / Ntozake Shange -- Transforming the rape culture that lives in my skull / Martha Roth -- Whose body is it, anyway?: Transforming ourselves to change a rape culture / Pamela R. Fletcher -- More gender, less presumption : cybersex as an alternative to a culture of violent sexuality / Kim Surkan. |
| Summary |
This volume presents a diverse group of opinions that lay the foundation for change in basic attitudes about power, gender, race, and sexuality -- for a future without sexual violence. The contributors to this sourcebook share the conviction that rape is epidemic because our society encourages male aggression and tacitly or overtly supports violence against women. Cumulatively, these 34 essays by such figures as Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Ntozake Shange, Michael Kimmel and Louise Erdrich situate rape on a continuum extending from sexist language to pornography, sexual harassment in schools and the workplace, wife battering and date and marital rape. Highlights include a proposal to make rape a presidential election issue, an analysis of the churches' ambivalent response to societal violence, guidelines for raising boys to view themselves as nurturing, nonviolent fathers and inspirational visions of personal or institutional change. |
| Subject |
Sexual harassment of women.
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Sexual harassment of women. |
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Rape.
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Rape. |
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Women -- Crimes against. |
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Sexual assault. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Buchwald, Emilie.
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Bush, Pamela R. Fletcher.
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Roth, Martha.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Transforming a rape culture. Rev. ed. Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2005 (OCoLC)609286610 |
| ISBN |
1571312692 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9781571312693 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
2070186 |
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