Purity, modesty, and rape culture in teen girl Bibles

Looking back and looking forward: Men and masculinity in psychological research on violence against women.

“…They allow men to "have it both ways" (Zimdars, 2018, p. 280): to embody or perform both traditional femininity and masculinity, both feminist and sexist proclivities. Scholars have used postfeminist theory to examine how VAW-related media culture (outside the scope of our review) shifts emphasis from structural inequities to individual responsibility and pathology by focusing, for example, on women's personal choice and self-help responses to VAW and men's practices of violence as resulting from damaged psyches, natural and uncontrollable instincts, or masculinity in crisis (men are bewildered about "how to be men" in the wake of a new gender order seemingly favoring women; Blyth, 2014;Rumens, 2017, p. 250;Storer, 2017). The latter notably frames VAW as failed masculinity rather than effective or acceptable enactments of masculine power.…”

Changing the Perceptions: Tracing Feminist and Postfeminist Apprehensions of Rape Culture in Sohaila Abdulali’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

“…Caroline Blyth (2014) argues that, "according to the logic of victim blaming ideology, if women commodify themselves as sexual objects, they should not be surprised if men treat them as objects, rather than human beings deserving of agency and respect" (p. 5). He also asks "if women actively seek to make themselves so attractive that no man can resist them, how can we fail to blame them when men lose all control and act impulsively on their desires?"…”

“…According to Caroline Blyth (2014), the "postfeminist discourse about the empowering potential of women"s sexuality is that this discourse stands in uneasy tension with the still prevalent sexual double standards that remain ubiquitous within many contemporary cultures." He argues, though the postfeminist outlets may promote women"s sexuality as a source of power, these same outlets never refrain from "slutshaming" these women when they use this power.…”