Full Description
Rape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I: Untying the Knot of Rape Culture
Chapter 1: Purity Culture
Chapter 2: Violence and Policing
Section II: Rape on Campus
Chapter 3: Exploring Institutional Structures
Chapter 4: Assumptions of Autonomy in Co-Curricular Responses to Sexual Violence
Section III: Sexual Violence and the Classroom
Chapter 5: De-individualizing Sexual Violence in the Classroom: Trauma and the Trigger Warning Debates
Chapter 6: Transforming Rape Culture through the Classroom
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
