Online Anti-Rape Activism : : Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media.

• Superior document: Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change
• Author: Loney-Howes, Rachel.
• Place / Publishing House: Bingley : : Emerald Publishing Limited,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.This book examines the nature, use and scope of online spaces for anti-rape activism, offering a critical commentary on its limitations and potentials.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Endorsements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1-Introduction: Keeping Rape on the Public Agenda -- Anti-Rape Activism in the Age of Digital Media -- Contemporary Social Movements -- Networked Digital Counter-publics -- Digital Protests, Discursive Activism and Online Anti-Rape Activism -- Methodological Approach -- Structure of This Book -- Chapter 2-The Contours and Critiques of Anti-Rape Activism: A Brief History -- Introduction -- The 'Discovery' of Rape in the 1970s -- Getting Publicly Active -- Establishing Formal Crisis Services -- Backlash in the 1990s -- Feminism, Rape and Neoliberalism -- Interrogating the Neoliberal Politics of the Personal -- Chapter 3-Consciousness-raising and Networked Anti-Rape Counter-publics -- Introduction -- Cyberfeminism -- Consciousness-raising and Anti-Rape Networks -- Dismantling Rape Culture and Rape Myths? -- Sustaining Consciousness-raising -- Feminism Trending -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4-Shifting the Rape Script* -- Introduction -- Unspeakable Stories -- Speaking Out Online -- Peer-to-Peer Witnessing and the Politics of Recognition -- Managing Negative Witnessing -- Therapeutic and Emotional Labour in Witnessing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5-The Politics of Recognition and Representation -- Introduction -- 'Victim' and 'Survivor' Identity Politics -- Resisting the Representation of Victimisation -- Subverting the Logics of 'Good Victimhood' -- A Rational Rather Than a 'Fighting' Response -- Men, Masculinity and Anti-Rape Activism -- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Visibility -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6-Justice Practices in Digital Spaces -- Introduction -- Carceral Feminism and Rape Law Reform -- Victim-centred Justice -- 'Naming and Shaming' and Informally Reporting Rape.

Digital Ethics and Victim-Survivor Safety Online -- The Impossibility of Justice -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: The Future of Anti-Rape Activism -- Introduction -- Curating Authenticity in Online Anti-Rape Activism -- Rape as 'Women's' Responsibility -- Online Anti-Rape Activism in a Post-#MeToo World -- References -- Index.