Beyond Blurred Lines
Rape Culture in Popular Media
Seiten
2018
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-2234-1 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-2234-1 (ISBN)
Beyond Blurred Lines explores the ways that the concept of “rape culture” resonates in popular media. This book demonstrates that popular culture, mass media, and social media are prominent sites for understanding and responding to sexual violence.
From its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today, the concept of “rape culture” has resonated in a variety of spheres, including television, gaming, comic book culture, and college campuses. Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence is collectively processed, mediated, negotiated, and contested by exploring public reactions to high-profile incidents and rape narratives in popular culture.
The concept of rape culture was initially embraced in popular media – mass media, social media, and popular culture – and contributed to a social understanding of sexual violence that mirrored feminist concerns about the persistence of rape myths and victim-blaming. However, it was later challenged by skeptics who framed the concept as a moral panic. Nickie D. Phillips documents how the conversation shifted from substantiating claims of a rape culture toward growing scrutiny of the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. This, in turn, renewed attention toward false allegations, and away from how college enforcement policies fail victims to how they endanger accused young men.
Ultimately, she successfully lends insight into how the debates around rape culture, including microaggressions, gendered harassment and so-called political correctness, inform our collective imaginations and shape our attitudes toward criminal justice and policy responses to sexual violence.
From its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today, the concept of “rape culture” has resonated in a variety of spheres, including television, gaming, comic book culture, and college campuses. Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence is collectively processed, mediated, negotiated, and contested by exploring public reactions to high-profile incidents and rape narratives in popular culture.
The concept of rape culture was initially embraced in popular media – mass media, social media, and popular culture – and contributed to a social understanding of sexual violence that mirrored feminist concerns about the persistence of rape myths and victim-blaming. However, it was later challenged by skeptics who framed the concept as a moral panic. Nickie D. Phillips documents how the conversation shifted from substantiating claims of a rape culture toward growing scrutiny of the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses. This, in turn, renewed attention toward false allegations, and away from how college enforcement policies fail victims to how they endanger accused young men.
Ultimately, she successfully lends insight into how the debates around rape culture, including microaggressions, gendered harassment and so-called political correctness, inform our collective imaginations and shape our attitudes toward criminal justice and policy responses to sexual violence.
Nickie D. Phillips is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY and director of the college’s Center for Crime & Popular Culture. Her research focuses on the intersection of crime, popular culture, and mass media.
Acknowledgments
1 Rape Culture: The Evolution of a Concept
2 The Mainstreaming of Rape Culture
3 “Hey TV, Stop Raping Women”
4 Geek Spaces: “Pretty Girls Pretending to Be Geeks”
5 Geek Spaces: Feminist Interventions and SJW Drama
Queens
6 Rape Culture on Campus: “Real Men Don’t Hurt Women”
7 Reconciling Panic and Policy
Appendix
Resources
Notes
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 table; 2 graphs |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 458 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-2234-0 / 1538122340 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-2234-1 / 9781538122341 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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