Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape

Abstract

Previous articleNext article No AccessToward a New Feminist Theory of RapeCarine M. MardorossianCarine M. MardorossianDepartment of EnglishState University of New York at Buffalo Search for more articles by this author Department of EnglishState University of New York at BuffaloPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 27, Number 3Spring 2002 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/337938 Views: 3090Total views on this site Citations: 110Citations are reported from Crossref © 2002 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Sameena Mulla Beyond Rape Culture? Toward A Theory of the Work of Rape, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 29, no.22 (Apr 2023): 297–299.https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10308647Rebecca Hall A Social Reproduction Theory of Gender Violence, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 48, no.22 (Feb 2023): 321–345.https://doi.org/10.1086/722312Pinky Mahlangu, Mercilene Machisa, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Ncediswa Nunze, Elizabeth Dartnall, Managa Pillay, Rachel Jewkes Preliminary evidence of promise of a sexual violence risk reduction intervention for female students in South African tertiary education institutions, Global Public Health 17, no.1111 (Nov 2021): 2720–2736.https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1998574Lily Kay Ross The Survivor Imperative: Sexual Violence, Victimhood, and Neoliberalism, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 48, no.11 (Oct 2022): 51–75.https://doi.org/10.1086/720413Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Philipp Schulz Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies, International Studies Quarterly 66, no.22 (Jun 2022).https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac022Cierra R. Sorin Hybrid Masculinities and The Limits of Anti-Violence Efforts in BDSM Communities, Men and Masculinities 15 (Jan 2022): 1097184X2110603.https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X211060383Nicoletta Mandolini Let’s go graphic. Mapping Italian graphic novels on gender-based violence, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 12, no.55 (Aug 2020): 939–963.https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2020.1809484Marie A. Yeh, Meike Eilert, Aphrodite Vlahos, Stacey Menzel Baker, Tony Stovall Toward a “human being to commodity model” as an explanation for men's violent, sexual consumption of women, Journal of Consumer Affairs 55, no.33 (Jun 2021): 911–938.https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12383Charlotte Knowles Articulating Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach to Testimony on Gendered Violence, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29, no.44 (Nov 2021): 448–472.https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2021.1997389Rupali Bansode Including caste and caste-based sexual violence in teaching, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 43, no.22 (May 2021): 142–164.https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2021.1911613Yvette Russell Theorizing Feminist Antirape Praxis and the Problem of Resistance, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46, no.22 (Dec 2020): 465–488.https://doi.org/10.1086/710812Lisa Chu Shen Rape, Victimization, and Agency in Fang Siqi’s Paradise of First Love, Contemporary Women's Writing 14, no.11 (Aug 2020): 31–50.https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa013Amanda E. Kasowski, Jaime L. Anderson The Association Between Sexually Aggressive Cognitions and Pathological Personality Traits in Men, Violence Against Women 26, no.12-1312-13 (Sep 2019): 1636–1655.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801219873436Rupal Oza Sexual Subjectivity in Rape Narratives: Consent, Credibility, and Coercion in Rural Haryana, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46, no.11 (Sep 2020): 103–125.https://doi.org/10.1086/709214 References, (Aug 2020): 155–168.https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-439-720201010 References, (May 2020): 147–157.https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-039-520201011Shonna Trinch, Barbara Cassidy Engaging F‐words to create change: Rape, representation, and performance, Feminist Anthropology 1, no.11 (Apr 2020): 89–107.https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12005Kate Farhall Towards an integrated theoretical framework for understanding women, work and violence in non-metropolitan contexts, Journal of Rural Studies 76 (May 2020): 96–110.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.04.034Malori A. Musselman, Andrea P. Herrera, Diego Contreras-Medrano, Dan Michael Fielding, Nicole A. Francisco, Larissa Petrucci Dissonant Discourses in Institutional Communications on Sexual Violence, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 41, no.22 (Jan 2020): 144–169.https://doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2019.1697120Federica Bastiani, Mariachiara Feresin, Patrizia Romito I percorsi di uscita dalla violenza del partner: ruolo dei figli, agency delle donne e ostacoli della società, SICUREZZA E SCIENZE SOCIALI , no.33 (Apr 2020): 65–84.https://doi.org/10.3280/SISS2019-003006Suzanne Egan Surveying the Landscape: Histories, Context and Contemporary Issues, (Nov 2020): 17–61.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22109-6_2Suzanne Egan Sexual Assault as Feminist Knowledge, (Nov 2020): 63–94.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22109-6_3Suzanne Egan Sexual Assault as Trauma, (Nov 2020): 95–133.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22109-6_4Suzanne Egan Trauma as Feminist Practice, (Nov 2020): 135–158.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22109-6_5Lisa Lazard Women, Sexual Harassment and Victim Politics, (Oct 2020): 43–68.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55255-8_3Heather R. Hlavka Regulating Bodies: Children and Sexual Violence, Violence Against Women 25, no.1616 (Nov 2019): 1956–1979.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801219875817Yvette Russell Book Review: Rape and Resistance, Social & Legal Studies 28, no.44 (Apr 2019): 563–566.https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663919844132Katherine Curchin The dilemma of rape avoidance advice: Acknowledging women's agency without blaming victims of sexual assault, Women's Studies International Forum 75 (Jul 2019): 102240.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.102240Susan Rees, Lisa Simpson, Clare A McCormack, Batool Moussa, Sue Amanatidis Believe #metoo: sexual violence and interpersonal disclosure experiences among women attending a sexual assault service in Australia: a mixed-methods study, BMJ Open 9, no.77 (Jul 2019): e026773.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026773Anette Bringedal Houge Narrative expressivism: A criminological approach to the expressive function of international criminal justice, Criminology & Criminal Justice 19, no.33 (Jul 2018): 277–293.https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818787009Suzanne Egan Excavating feminist knowledges and practices in the field of sexual assault service provision: An Australian case study, Women's Studies International Forum 74 (May 2019): 169–178.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.04.001Nicholas Kavish, Jaime L. Anderson Associations between life history speed and sexually coercive behavior, Personality and Individual Differences 138 (Feb 2019): 11–18.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.09.008Karen Boyle Men in the #MeToo Era, (Nov 2019): 101–126.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28243-1_5Rachel Loney-Howes The Politics of the Personal: The Evolution of Anti-rape Activism From Second-Wave Feminism to #MeToo, (Sep 2019): 21–35.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15213-0_2Monika Edgren Conditional Vulnerability: Rape Narratives in Swedish Courts, 1990–2014, (Mar 2019): 43–69.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13852-3_3Kaitlynn Mendes, Katia Belisário, Jessica Ringrose Digitised Narratives of Rape: Disclosing Sexual Violence Through Pain Memes, (Mar 2019): 171–197.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13852-3_8Katherine Stone The mass rapes of 1945 in contemporary memory culture: The (gender) politics of metaphor and metonymy, European Journal of Cultural Studies 21, no.66 (Jul 2017): 707–723.https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417718207Elizabeth Thornberry Colonizing Consent, 1 (Nov 2018).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108659284Soma Chaudhuri, Preethi Krishnan, Mangala Subramaniam Chapter 7 Mainstreaming Gender, Endangered, Ungendered? Analysis of Media Reports of the 2012 Case of Rape in India, (Oct 2018): 125–140.https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620180000026009Elisabeth Krimmer German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust, 5 (Aug 2018).https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563758Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Miriam Gleckman-Krut, Lanora Johnson Silence, Power, and Inequality: An Intersectional Approach to Sexual Violence, Annual Review of Sociology 44, no.11 (Jul 2018): 99–122.https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041410Ulrika Andersson, Monika Edgren Vulnerability, Agency and the Ambivalence of Place in Narratives of Rape in Three High-Profile Swedish Cases, NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 26, no.33 (Aug 2018): 197–209.https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2018.1472140Maria Eriksson Baaz, Maria Stern Curious erasures: the sexual in wartime sexual violence, International Feminist Journal of Politics 20, no.33 (May 2018): 295–314.https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2018.1459197Lara Lengel Mediated memory work and resistant remembering of wartime sexual violence, 1992–1995, Feminist Media Studies 18, no.22 (Feb 2018): 325–328.https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1436903Neetika Vishwanath The Shifting Shape of the Rape Discourse, Indian Journal of Gender Studies 25, no.11 (Jan 2018): 1–25.https://doi.org/10.1177/0971521517738447Lena Gunnarsson “Excuse Me, But Are You Raping Me Now?” Discourse and Experience in (the Grey Areas of) Sexual Violence, NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 26, no.11 (Jan 2018): 4–18.https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2017.1395359Lisa Fitzpatrick Introduction, (Jan 2018): 1–40.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70845-4_1Lisa Fitzpatrick Eroticism, Vulnerability and Affect, (Jan 2018): 181–211.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70845-4_5Tanya Serisier Speaking Out Beyond Feminism: Public Survivors and Rape Narratives, (Nov 2018): 23–42.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98669-2_2Neval Berber Writing the Rape in Post-Conflict Societies of the 1990s: John M. Coetzee and Slavenka Drakulić, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59, no.11 (Aug 2017): 103–114.https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2017.1354811Nicole L. Johnson, MaryBeth Grove Why Us? Toward an Understanding of Bisexual Women's Vulnerability for and Negative Consequences of Sexual Violence, Journal of Bisexuality 17, no.44 (Sep 2017): 435–450.https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2017.1364201Johanna X. K. Garvey Fissured Memory and Mad Tongues: The Aesthetics of Marronnage in Haitian Women’s Fiction, (Nov 2017): 103–138.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58127-9_5Isabel Ventura “They never talk about a victim’s feelings: according to criminal law, feelings are not facts”—Portuguese judicial narratives about sex crimes, Palgrave Communications 2, no.11 (Dec 2016).https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.101Shonna L. Trinch De-authorizing rape narrators, (Jun 2016): 37–58.https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.86.02triMonica Sakhrani Reading Rape Post Mathura, Indian Journal of Gender Studies 23, no.22 (May 2016): 260–285.https://doi.org/10.1177/0971521516635347Lucia C. Lykke Visibility and denial: accounts of sexual violence in race- and gender-specific magazines, Feminist Media Studies 16, no.22 (Jul 2015): 239–260.https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1061034Janet M. Turan, Abigail M. Hatcher, Patrizia Romito, Emily Mangone, Modupeoluwa Durojaiye, Merab Odero, Carol S. Camlin Intimate partner violence and forced migration during pregnancy: Structural constraints to women's agency, Global Public Health 11, no.1-21-2 (May 2015): 153–168.https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2015.1030684Suzanne Egan Sexual Assault as Trauma: A Foucauldian Examination of Knowledge Practices in the Field of Sexual Assault Service Provision, Feminist Review 112, no.11 (Feb 2016): 95–112.https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2015.47Nicola Henry Theorizing Wartime Rape, Gender & Society 30, no.11 (Oct 2015): 44–56.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243215608780Michael A. Messner Bad Men, Good Men, Bystanders, Gender & Society 30, no.11 (Oct 2015): 57–66.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243215608781Nancy Whittier Where Are the Children?, Gender & Society 30, no.11 (Oct 2015): 95–108.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243215612412Jo Reger Transitions, Gender & Society 30, no.11 (Oct 2015): 5–8.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243215612709Laina Y. Bay-Cheng The Agency Line: A Neoliberal Metric for Appraising Young Women’s Sexuality, Sex Roles 73, no.7-87-8 (Mar 2015): 279–291.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-015-0452-6Carrie Rentschler #Safetytipsforladies: Feminist Twitter Takedowns of Victim Blaming, Feminist Media Studies 15, no.22 (Feb 2015): 353–356.https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1008749Kathryn Robson The subject of rape: Feminist discourses on rape and violability in contemporary France, French Cultural Studies 26, no.11 (Feb 2015): 45–55.https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155814555956Robin May Schott ‘Not Just Victims … But’: Toward a Critical Theory of the Victim, (Jan 2015): 178–194.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015129_11Nicola Henry, Asher Flynn, Anastasia Powell The Promise and Paradox of Justice, (Jan 2015): 1–17.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137476159_1Elisabeth Krimmer Philomela's Legacy: Rape, the Second World War, and the Ethics of Reading, The German Quarterly 88, no.11 (Feb 2015): 82–103.https://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.10227Rachel Loney-Howes Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering: Representations of Rape in Online Anti-Rape Activism, SSRN Electronic Journal 36 (Jan 2015).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2700387Shonna L. Trinch De-authorizing rape narrators, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2, no.22 (Oct 2014): 204–225.https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.2.2.02triTal Dingott Alkopher Injury in just war theory: From the traditional to the feminist perception, Cooperation and Conflict 49, no.22 (Mar 2014): 260–275.https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836714525051Joanne Conaghan, Yvette Russell Rape Myths, Law, and Feminist Research: ‘Myths About Myths’?, Feminist Legal Studies 22, no.11 (Mar 2014): 25–48.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-014-9259-zNicola Henry The Fixation on Wartime Rape, Social & Legal Studies 23, no.11 (Sep 2013): 93–111.https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663913499061Anastasia Powell, Nicola Henry Framing Sexual Violence Prevention, (Jan 2014): 1–21.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356192_1Nicola Henry, Anastasia Powell The Dark Side of the Virtual World, (Jan 2014): 84–104.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356192_5 Jean-Charles Toward a Victim-Survivor Narrative: Rape and Form in Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga, Research in African Literatures 45, no.11 (Jan 2014): 39.https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.45.1.39Chanae D. Bazemore The Between Story : Physical and Psychic Trauma in the Poetry of Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton, Culture & History Digital Journal 2, no.22 (Dec 2013): e030.https://doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2013.030Eleanor Glendinning Reinventing Lucretia: Rape, Suicide and Redemption from Classical Antiquity to the Medieval Era, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 20, no.1-21-2 (Jul 2013): 61–82.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-013-0322-yAurora Murphy Spreading the Love and using performances to prevent rape, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 18, no.22 (May 2013): 133–143.https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2013.787259Michelle E. Deming, Eleanor Krassen Covan, Suzanne C. Swan, Deborah L. Billings Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women, Violence Against Women 19, no.44 (May 2013): 465–485.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801213487044Tanya Horeck Rape and Replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund, and Val McDermid: On Affect, Ethics, and Feeling Bad, (Jan 2013): 157–174.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291639_10Claire Henry The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Rape, Revenge, and Victimhood in Cinematic Translation, (Jan 2013): 175–192.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291639_11Carine M Mardorossian Victimhood in the carceral culture of women’s prisons, International Review of Victimology 19, no.11 (Jun 2012): 69–83.https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758012447214NAYANIKA MOOKHERJEE The absent piece of skin: Gendered, racialized and territorial inscriptions of sexual violence during the Bangladesh war, Modern Asian Studies 46, no.66 (Jan 2012): 1572–1601.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X11000783Kieran McEvoy, Kirsten McConnachie Victimology in transitional justice: Victimhood, innocence and hierarchy, European Journal of Criminology 9, no.55 (Sep 2012): 527–538.https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370812454204Joanna Bourke Sexual Violence, Bodily Pain, and Trauma: A History, Theory, Culture & Society 29, no.33 (Jun 2012): 25–51.https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412439406Sameena Mulla, Heather Hlavka Gendered Violence and the Ethics of Social Science Research, Violence Against Women 17, no.1212 (Mar 2012): 1509–1520.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801211436169Rachel Carroll ‘Violent Operations’: Revisiting the Transgendered Body in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, Women: A Cultural Review 22, no.2-32-3 (Sep 2011): 241–255.https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2011.587246Laina Y. Bay-Cheng, Jennifer A. Livingston, Nicole M. Fava Adolescent Girls’ Assessment and Management of Sexual Risks, Youth & Society 43, no.33 (Oct 2010): 1167–1193.https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X10384475Karen S. Mitchell, Jennifer L. Freitag Forum Theatre for Bystanders, Violence Against Women 17, no.88 (Aug 2011): 990–1013.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801211417152Sameena Mulla Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking edited by Miranda Horvath and Jennifer Brown Theorizing Sexual Violence edited by Renée J. Heberle and Victoria Grace, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 34, no.11 (May 2011): 204–209.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1555-2934.2011.01157.xJane Kilby Judith Butler, incest, and the question of the child’s love, Feminist Theory 11, no.33 (Dec 2010): 255–265.https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700110376277Nicola Henry The Impossibility of Bearing Witness: Wartime Rape and the Promise of Justice, Violence Against Women 16, no.1010 (Oct 2010): 1098–1119.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801210382860Alison Phipps Violent and victimized bodies: Sexual violence policy in England and Wales, Critical Social Policy 30, no.33 (Jul 2010): 359–383.https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018310367673Ann J. Cahill In Defense of Self-Defense, Philosophical Papers 38, no.33 (Nov 2009): 363–380.https://doi.org/10.1080/05568640903420913Jamie L. Callahan Manifestations of Power and Control: Training as the Catalyst for Scandal at the United States Air Force Academy, Violence Against Women 15, no.1010 (Aug 2009): 1149–1168.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801209344341Daniela de Vito, Aisha Gill, Damien Short A tipificação do estupro como genocídio, Sur. Revista Internacional de Direitos Humanos 6, no.1010 (Jun 2009): 28–51.https://doi.org/10.1590/S1806-64452009000100003Laina Y. Bay-Cheng, Rebecca K. Eliseo-Arras The Making of Unwanted Sex: Gendered and Neoliberal Norms in College Women's Unwanted Sexual Experiences, Journal of Sex Research 45, no.44 (Nov 2008): 386–397.https://doi.org/10.1080/00224490802398381Katharine M. Tellis, Cassia C. Spohn The sexual stratification hypothesis revisited: Testing assumptions about simple versus aggravated rape, Journal of Criminal Justice 36, no.33 (Jul 2008): 252–261.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2008.04.006Alex Tate Thelma and Louise and the Politics of Excess, (Jan 2008): 200–213.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228429_13Jane Kilby The Promise of Understanding: Sex, Violence, Trauma and the Body, (Jan 2008): 100–117.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228429_7 Xiying Wang, Petula Sik Ying Ho Violence and Desire in Beijing, Violence Against Women 13, no.1212 (Jun 2016): 1319–1338.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801207310802Carrie A. Rentschler Risky Assignments, Feminist Media Studies 7, no.33 (Sep 2007): 257–279.https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770701477875ALISON HOWELL Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over “Terrorist” Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, International Political Sociology 1, no.11 (Feb 2007): 29–47.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2007.00003.xJane Elliott The Currency of Feminist Theory, PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no.55 (Oct 2020): 1697–1703.https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1697Rose Corrigan Making Meaning of Megan's Law, Law <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> Social Inquiry 31, no.22 (Jun 2006): 267–312.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2006.00012.xPenelope Saunders Traffic Violations, Journal of Interpersonal Violence 20, no.33 (Jul 2016): 343–360.https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260504272509Jill Marsden Deleuzian bodies, feminist tactics, Women: A Cultural Review 15, no.33 (Nov 2004): 308–319.https://doi.org/10.1080/0957404042000291436 Carine M. Mardorossian Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault by Maria BevacquaRethinking Rape by Ann J. CahillNew Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept by Sharon Lamb Mardorossian, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29, no.11 (Jul 2015): 265–269.https://doi.org/10.1086/375670 References, (): 293–308.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375227-013