{"product_id":"framing-the-rape-victim-gender-and-agency-reconsidered-hardback-9780813566030","title":"Framing the Rape Victim; Gender and Agency Reconsidered (Hardback) 9780813566030","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFraming the Rape Victim\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender and Agency Reconsidered\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarine M. Mardorossian (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813566030\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 May 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e178 pages, 2 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“With a distinctive, innovative, and powerful feminist voice, Mardorossian makes a fantastic contribution to the scholarship on sexual violence that will excite much interest and fuel many debates. \u003ci\u003eFraming the Rape Victim\u003c\/i\u003e is simply brilliant.” \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Joanna Bourke (author of Rape: Sex, Violence, History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Mardorossian powerfully illustrates how aversion to 'victim rhetoric' has valorized agency but ignored the ways political and cultural institutions shape experiences of choice, consent, autonomy, and vulnerability.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Rose Corrigan (author of Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A powerful critique.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Ms. Magazine)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the 2016 Nonfiction Category from The Authors' Zone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFraming the Rape Victim,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 behavior, comportment, passivity, or weakness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contesting the notion that rape is the result of deviant behaviors of victims or perpetrators, Mardorossian argues that rape saturates our culture and defines masculinity’s relation to femininity, both of which are structural positions rather than biologically derived ones. Using diverse examples throughout, Mardorossian draws from Hollywood film and popular culture to contemporary women’s fiction and hospitalized birth emphasizing that the position of dominant masculinity can be occupied by men, women, or institutions, while structural femininity is a position that may define and subordinate men, minorities, and other marginalized groups just as effectively as it does women.  Highlighting the legacies of the politically correct debates of the 1990s and the terrorist attacks of 9\/11, the book illustrates how the framing of the term “victim” has played a fundamental role in constructing notions of agency that valorize autonomy and support exclusionary, especially masculine, models of American selfhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The gendering of rape, including by well-meaning, sometimes feminist, voices that claim to have victims’ best interests at heart, ultimately obscures its true role in our culture. Both a critical analysis and a call to action, \u003ci\u003eFraming the Rape Victim\u003c\/i\u003e shows that rape is not a special interest issue that pertains just to women but a pervasive one that affects our society as a whole.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Framing the Victim\u003cbr\u003e2. Rape and Victimology in Feminist Theory\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Birth Rape\": Laboring Women, Coaching Men, and Natural Childbirth in the Hospital Setting\u003cbr\u003e4. Prison Rape, Masculinity, and the Missed Alliances of Hollywood Cinema\u003cbr\u003e5. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Diasporic Women's Fiction\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559343976728,"sku":"9780813566030","price":85.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/framing-the-rape-victim-gender-and-agency-reconsidered-hardback-9780813566030","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}