Framing the Rape Victim : : Gender and Agency Reconsidered / / Carine M. Mardorossian.

Winner of the 2016 Nonfiction Category from The Authors' Zone 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (178 p.) :; 2 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Framing the Victim
  • 2. Rape and Victimology in Feminist Theory
  • 3. "Birth Rape": Laboring Women, Coaching Men, and Natural Childbirth in the Hospital Sett ing
  • 4. Prison Rape, Masculinity, and the Missed Alliances of Hollywood Cinema
  • 5. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Diasporic Women's Fiction
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author