Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered
In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential treatment of rape has exacerbated the ghettoizing of sexual violence along gendered lines and has repeatedly led to women's being accused of triggering, if not causing, rape through immodest behaviour, comportment, passivity, or weakness.Contesting the notion that rape is the result of deviant behaviours of victims or perpetrators, Mardorossian argues that rape saturates our culture and defines mascul…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8135-6603-0
- EAN: 9780813566030
- Produktnummer: 15655961
- Verlag: Rutgers Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 404 g
- Auflage: None
- Gewicht: 404
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 - 22 J.
Über den Autor
Carine M. Mardorossian is a professor of English at the University of Buffalo, USA. Her first book was Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism.
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