Rape, agency, and carceral solutions : from criminal justice to social justice /

News media and popular culture in the United States have produced a conventional narrative of the outcomes of sexual abuse. Someone perpetrates sexual violence, goes to trial and is then punished with prison time. Survivors recede into the background, becoming minor characters in their own stories a...

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Main Author: Spencer, Leland G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023].
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505 0 |a Introduction. Rape culture and its narratives -- Brock Turner, news coverage, and responsibility -- Performative neutrality and rape culture in Naomi Iizuka's Good Kids -- Profiling sexual violence. Misplaced agency and carceral feminist responses to rape myths in Criminal Minds -- Resisting rape culture? 13 Reasons Why and perspectival truth telling -- Conclusion. Telling better stories. Imagining possibilities for antiviolent worldmaking. 
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