Gender and Racial Stereotyping in Rape Coverage

Bonnes, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/14680777.2011.623170

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“…Women are also seen as deserving or provoking rape by failing to perform a chaste femininity, or for sending out signals to men that they are 'up for it,' regardless of how much they protest (see Buchwald, Fletcher & Ross, 2005;McNicol, 2012;Valenti, 2007). These so-called 'signals' include staying out late at night, drinking alcohol, flirting with me, wearing 'provocative' clothing, or being sexually active (see Bonnes, 2013;Meyer, 2010).…”

Section: Literature Review: Popular Feminisms and Misogyny In Media Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Speaking ‘unspeakable things’: documenting digital feminist responses to rape culture

Keller

Mendes

Ringrose³

2016

Journal of Gender Studies

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Acknowledgments:To add after peer review. Abstract:This paper examines the ways in which girls and women are using digital media platforms to challenge the rape culture they experience in their everyday lives, including street harassment, sexual assault, and the policing of one's body and clothing in school settings. Focusing on three international case studies, including the anti-street harassment site Hollaback!, the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported, and interviews with teenage Twitter activists, the paper asks: What experiences of harassment, misogyny and rape culture are girls and women responding to? How are girls and women using digital media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism? And, why are girls and women choosing to mobilize digital media technologies in such a way?Employing a unique approach including ethnographic methods such as semi-structured interviews, content analysis, discursive textual analysis, and affect theories, we detail a range of ways women and girls are using social media platforms to speak about, and thus make visible, experiences of rape culture. Additionally, we argue that this digital mediation enables new connections previously unavailable to girls and women, allowing them to redraw the boundaries between themselves and others.

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Section: Literature Review: Popular Feminisms and Misogyny In Media Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Speaking ‘unspeakable things’: documenting digital feminist responses to rape culture

Keller

Mendes

Ringrose³

2016

Journal of Gender Studies

238

157

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“…Feminist commentators, activists and scholars alike have highlighted the ways in which sexual violence surrounds us -through images, advertisements, jokes, language and laws. Cumulatively, all of these things serve to validate and perpetuate rape, and result in it 'making sense' in certain contexts (such as if a woman is wearing 'slutty clothing,' drinks alcohol, isn't a virgin, or flirts with her attacker beforehand) (Benedict 1992;Bonnes 2013;McNicol 2012;Meyer 2010;Worthington 2008).…”

Section: The Second Assaultmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In some places, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US and the UK, anti-rape campaigning grew out of Second Wave feminist organising, and became a 'submovement,' developing its own organizations and strategies (Bevacqua 2008, p. 164). In other places, such as India and South Africa, anti-rape activism developed out of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid movements (Bonnes 2013;Gangoli 2007;Mitra 2013;Rosenthall 2001), while in Singapore, where social protest and activism is generally discouraged, it developed with academic and government support (Ward 1995).…”

Section: Anti-rape Activismmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Franiuk et al (2008) argued that rape myths are key to the perpetuation of sexual assault in our culture because they make people question the legitimacy of rape cases (cited in Bonnes 2013, p. 211). The cultural acceptance of rape myths mean that when victims report the assault (to friends, family or the authorities), they are often questioned about their appearance, behaviour, profession, or sexual past, as a way of transferring blame to them (Benedict 1992;Bonnes 2013;Meyer 2010;Worthington 2008).…”

Section: The Second Assaultmentioning

confidence: 98%

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“…Despite efforts to address this social problem, South African women continue living in fear of sexual violence. While various psychosocial research projects have attempted to explain the dynamics behind this perpetual state of affairs, there is very little work that has explicitly targeted the societal norms and ideologies expressed in South African media discourses as their main focus (see however Bonnes 2013). It is exactly this gap in scholarly research that is addressed by this article.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Too late for tears, dear sister”: Constructing victims and perpetrators of rape in the advice column 'Dear Dolly' from 1984 to 2004.

Krige

Oostendorp

2015

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This article reports on the ways in which the rape of women by men is constructed in the advice column Dear Dolly, published in the South African periodical Drum Magazine. The data collected for the study spans from 1984 to 2004, encompassing both 10 years before and 10 years after the onset of democracy in South Africa. The article uses critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2003) as main analytical tool, but also draws on critical feminist theory (Bourke 2007). The findings suggest that there has been a decrease in explicit victim blaming after 1994, but that subtle and opaque victim blaming is still evident in readers' letters and in the responses. These rape discourses presented in Drum after 1994 are, as Bakhtin (1981) suggests, made up of multiple voices articulating different gendered discourses. In this article, we argue that even though the use of less explicit victim blaming might seem like a positive move in the representation of rape and gender, this is not always the case. The more subtle forms of victim blaming avoid contestation and consequently often go unchecked (Fairclough 2003: 58). Additionally, new rape myths are created to mitigate the responsibility of males. These processes of subtle victim blaming and new myth-making manufacture consent and make it more difficult to counteract dominant discourses.

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Gender and Racial Stereotyping in Rape Coverage

Cited by 34 publications

References 41 publications

Speaking ‘unspeakable things’: documenting digital feminist responses to rape culture

Speaking ‘unspeakable things’: documenting digital feminist responses to rape culture

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“Too late for tears, dear sister”: Constructing victims and perpetrators of rape in the advice column 'Dear Dolly' from 1984 to 2004.

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