Rape Myth Acceptance: Gender and Cross-National Comparisons Across the United States, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria

Fakunmoju, Sunday B.; Abrefa‐Gyan, Tina; Maphosa, Ntandoyenkosi; Gutura, Priscilla

doi:10.1007/s12119-020-09755-z

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“…31,[71][72][73] The close relationship between sexual violence and masculinity implies "rape myths" 74 based on beliefs of denial of sexual offenses and men's dominance. [75][76][77][78] Besides, most survivors or victims do not report their experiences due to the stigma associated with sexual violence in the DRC based on cultural perceptions. They fear being abandoned by husbands, primarily if (gang) rape resulted in pregnancy.…”

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<p>Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Among Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Scenario</p>

Lugova¹,

Samad²,

Haque³

2020

RMHP

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<p>Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Among Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Scenario</p>

Lugova¹,

Samad²,

Haque³

2020

RMHP

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“…Rape myths revolve around the notions that 'women invite it' and 'rapists are sex-starved, insane, or both'. Therefore, victim blaming is an attitude that the perpetrators use to avoid taking the responsibility for their crime (Fakunmoju et al 2021). Other specific statements, such as 'they asked for it', 'it was not rape', 'they did not mean to' and 'they liked it,' are also used to justify the sexual violence (Petrus 2017).…”

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Construction of rape culture amongst the Shona indigenous religion and culture: Perspectives from African feminist cultural hermeneutics

Sande

Chirongoma

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

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Rape culture is reportedly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Culture, patriarchy, poverty and religion continue to sustain rape culture. The notions of the objectification of women’s bodies amongst the Shona people are causatives for rape culture within diverse cultural institutions. Africans reasonably uphold marriage with high esteem; unfortunately, the marriage institution is also susceptible to becoming a source of abuse, coercion, and is often used as a tool for controlling women. Some of the entrenched marital rituals embody diverse detrimental and contentious practices, which deprive girls and women their autonomous rights, particularly their sexual and reproductive rights. This research article interrogates numerous aspects within the Shona indigenous religion and culture, which precipitate the construction of rape culture. The study uses African feminism as a theoretical framework. It utilises African feminist cultural hermeneutics to interrogate rape culture amongst the Shona people. The research study is qualitative with a conceptual analysis paradigm. It concludes by proposing the need for tapping into some life-giving and gender inclusive principles within the Shona indigenous religion and culture to be utilised as tools for eradicating rape culture.Contribution: Utilising the African feminist cultural hermeneutical framework, the article interrogated several factors precipitating rape culture amongst the Shona people. It foregrounded that women bear the brunt of burden of rape culture. It concludes by proposing the need for tapping into some positive Shona indigenous traditions as tools for curbing rape culture.

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“…This study should be replicated with a more varied pool of people, for example, recruiting participants from the Global South as well as from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Several cross-cultural variables (e.g., machismo, patriarchal structures and ideologies) have an impact on attitudes toward women ( Barn & Powers, 2021 ; Fakunmoju et al., 2020 ). It would be interesting to explore whether these cultural variables increase rape cognitions after an exposure to online sexism, depending on the levels of the Dark Triad traits in the participants.…”

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Situational and Dispositional Factors in Rape Cognitions: The Roles of Social Media and the Dark Triad Traits

Lyons

Rowe

Waddington

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J Interpers Violence

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Previous research has established the importance of socially aversive personality traits (i.e., the Dark Triad) in rape cognitions (operationalized here as rape-supportive attitudes, rape victim empathy, and hostile masculinity). However, less is known about how sexist social media content influences attitudes toward rape cognitions depending on the personality of the individual. In an online experiment, after completing the Short Dark Triad-3 questionnaire, participants ( N = 180) were primed with either sexist or neutral tweets, rating them for acceptability, humor, rudeness, and ignorance. Participants then completed scales for rape-supportive attitudes, victim empathy, and hostile masculinity. Sexist tweets were rated as significantly less acceptable and humorous, and more rude and ignorant than neutral tweets. However, those high in the Dark Triad found the sexist tweets as funny and acceptable. Overall, exposure to the sexist tweets did not increase rape cognitions. Moreover, the Dark Triad traits had similar significant, positive correlations with rape-supportive attitudes, victim blame, and hostile masculinity in both sexist and neutral tweet conditions. Multiple regression analyses (controlling for gender) revealed that psychopathy was the strongest positive predictor for increased rape cognitions. Findings suggest that short exposure to sexist social media content may not influence rape cognitions, but that dispositional factors such as psychopathy are more important.

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Rape Myth Acceptance: Gender and Cross-National Comparisons Across the United States, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria

Cited by 27 publications

References 53 publications

<p>Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Among Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Scenario</p>

<p>Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Among Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Post-Conflict Scenario</p>

Construction of rape culture amongst the Shona indigenous religion and culture: Perspectives from African feminist cultural hermeneutics

Situational and Dispositional Factors in Rape Cognitions: The Roles of Social Media and the Dark Triad Traits

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