Disrupting Rape Culture

Alexandra Fanghanel

ISBN 10: 1529202582 / ISBN 13: 9781529202588

Published by Bristol University Press, GB, 2020

About this Item

Pussy grabbing; hot mommas; topless protest; nasty women. Whether hypersexualised, desexualised, venerated or maligned, women's bodies in public space continue to be framed as a problem. A problem that is discursively 'solved' by the continued proliferation of rape culture in everyday life. Indeed, despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and sexism in contemporary debates, gendered violence continues to be normalised.Using case studies from the US and UK - the de/sexualised pregnancy, the troublesome naked protest, the errant BDSM player - Fanghanel interrogates how the female body is figured through, and revolts against, gendered violence.Rape culture currently thrives. This book demonstrates how it happens, the politics that are mobilised to sustain it, and how we might act to contest it.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disrupting Rape Culture
• Publisher: Bristol University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529202582
• ISBN 13: 9781529202588
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Pussy grabbing; hot mommas; topless protest; nasty women. Whether hypersexualised, desexualised, venerated or maligned, women’s bodies in public space continue to be framed as a problem. A problem that is discursively ‘solved’ by the continued proliferation of rape culture in everyday life.

Indeed, despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and sexism in contemporary debates, gendered violence continues to be normalised.

Using case studies from the US and UK – the de/sexualised pregnancy, the troublesome naked protest, the errant BDSM player – Fanghanel interrogates how the female body is figured through, and revolts against, gendered violence.

Rape culture currently thrives. This book demonstrates how it happens, the politics that are mobilised to sustain it, and how we might act to contest it.

About the Author

Alexandra Fanghanel is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Greenwich. She has worked in the fields of space, sexuality and crime since 2007. The data appearing in this book were accumulated through six years of research.