Politics Of Rape Research Articles

Beyond Rape Culture? Toward A Theory of the Work of Rape

Beyond Rape Culture? Toward A Theory of the Work of Rape

Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

Former Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise famously classified the creation of West Virginia out of Virginia as the “bastard child of a political rape.” The story of West Virginia’s statehood is an intriguing mix of political bandying, court rulings, military actions, and societal differences between prewar Virginians living on either side of the Appalachian Mountains. Eric Wittenberg, Edmund Sargus, Jr., and Penny Barrick—lawyers or judges all—form a team well-equipped to examine Wise’s famous claim. As such, Seceding from Secession highlights the legitimacy of West Virginia’s statehood while placing President Abraham Lincoln and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the center of the discussion.

ALIANSI POLITIK KEBANGSAAN MENURUT AL-QUR’AN DAN SANG MAHA GURU

During this time, many politicians were political without using the Qur'an's values to fight. Quite often from them they commit political rape which is very tarnishing the essence of politics. In fact, they were born from Rahim political party political parties. By Karen, it is time for Islamic politicians to re-understand, interpret and implement the Qur'an-based politics, based on the Sunnah of the Prophet and based on the sunnah of friends and follow ulamak whose knowledge is connected to the prophet and his heart contains Allah, the mind of the Ummah.

The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature. Suzanne M. Edwards. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xv+193.

<i>The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature</i>. Suzanne M. Edwards. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xv+193.

The Psychology of the Politics of Rape: Political Ideology, Moral Foundations, and Attitudes Toward Rape.

Previous research has found that conservatives and liberals emphasize different moral foundations. The purpose of these two studies was to investigate whether moral foundations mediate the relationship between political ideology and attitudes toward rape among U.S. college students. In Study 1, moral foundations fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and rape myth acceptance. Study 2 generally replicated the results of Study 1, with binding foundations demonstrating the most consistent mediating effects. These results suggest that individual differences in moral decision-making may explain the relationship between political ideology and attitudes toward rape.

The politics of rape: Traces of radical feminism in Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace can be read as a deliberation on rape in all its complexity, articulating and commenting upon many of the positions typical of the radical feminism of the seventies. Some feminists classify prostitution as a form of rape. Prostitution is the ideal form of sex for the main character, David, because it allows him to fantasize that a woman mirrors his wishes. The border between rape and consensual sex is shown to be problematic in the relationship between David and his young student, Melanie. Although some readers find that Melanie was willingly seduced, others consider that she was raped. The charge of sexual harassment is therefore unsatisfactory for both sides and, since David refuses to read the charges brought against him, he effectively silences his accuser. When his daughter, Lucy, equates heterosexual sex with killing and hating women, one can read it as evoking the radical feminist idea that men as a class subordinate women as a class through the threat of rape. Lucy’s political lesbianism is a logical response to such misogyny. After being rape, Lucy accepts a subordinate position and this proves the power of rape in controlling women. Like one of the Sabine women, Lucy seems willing to sacrifice herself for peace between black and white in South Africa.

Rape Politics, Policies and Practice: Exploring the Tensions and Unanticipated Consequences of Well‐Intended Victim‐Focused Measures

AbstractThe inability of the criminal justice system to respond effectively to rape has led to numerous law and policy reforms in England and Wales. Nevertheless, difficulties remain, with problems often linked to the impact of rape myths and implementation failure. This article, however, adopts a different lens through which to explore the ongoing challenges faced by rape complainants. Drawing on interviews with 14 barristers in the north‐west of England, the article asks: how have rape law and policy reforms impacted practice for this group of practitioners? The findings highlight that numerous tensions emerged from these reforms. In particular, measures that were perceived to be politically driven and well intended were often perceived to generate unanticipated negative consequences for complainants, as opposed to improving their experience. In concluding, we emphasise the importance of a close working practice between the policy maker and practitioner, in order to institute more effective responses.

Haitian Women's Fight for Gender Justice

This article examines the efforts of victims of political rape during Haiti’s 1991-1994 dictatorship to pursue justice against the perpetrators of their rapes. They seek to prosecute all those responsible for the rapes, including the top military leadership, as part of a larger effort to fundamentally transform the social, economic and political conditions that permitted the rapes to happen. They intend that their struggle change forever the way that Haitian women can and do respond to violence, by removing gender-based obstacles and empowering women through organization and education.

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage by Jennifer Airey

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage by Jennifer Airey

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and The Restoration Stage by Jennifer L. Airey (review)

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and The Restoration Stage by Jennifer L. Airey (review)

Silence against Political Rape

Arab Spring movements in many Arab countries revealed a gap at the heart of Arab society and politics: the large-scale subalternity of Arab women in such movements. In this essay, I hypothesise that, with few exceptions, Arab women have always avoided participation in social and political activism because of their fear of political rape – raping women as punishment during political turmoil. The essay traces the history of political rape through different stages of Arab history. The examples are taken from history, literature and international reports and they mainly cover three countries: Syria, Egypt and Libya. These examples prove that vulnerable women’s horror at any possibility of their being sexually abused and then rejected by their families and society has always haunted them, preventing them from struggling or protesting. The essay concludes that subalternity is the only stance from which Arab women can encounter political rape. Then, the essay discusses the subalternity of Arab women in the light of the thought of the postcolonial critic Gayatri Spivak. This argument leads to the contention that the silence of Arab women vulnerable to political rape should not be considered passive and that feminist theories and actions cannot be successful in supporting subaltern Arab women without the ethical responsibility theorised by Spivak as the most appropriate approach to the subaltern female. This approach entails respecting subaltern Arab women’s culture and fears and avoiding any attempt to make them copies of the European feminist self. Subaltern Arab women who are afraid of being sexually abused have the right to protect their bodies and stick to their culture while still participating in public life. olA ABdAlkAFor DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, FILM, AND THEATRE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX silenCe AGAinst PolitiCAl rAPe: ArAB woMen’s sUBAlternitY DUrinG PolitiCAl strUGGles Corresponding author: Ola Abdalkafor, Email: oabdal@essex.ac.uk keywords rape, Arab feminism, Arab Spring, subalternity, Gayatri Spivak

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching. By Crystal N. Feimster. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 314 pp. $35.00 cloth.

<i>Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching</i>. By Crystal N. Feimster. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 314 pp. $35.00 cloth.

Politicization of sexual violence: from abolitionism to peacekeeping

In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an international issue not just by the feminist fringes of protest movements but also by intergovernmental bureaucracies? To explore these questions, Carol Harrington traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international problem and explains how early international women's organizations gained expert authority on rape by drawing on abolitionist rhetoric of bodily integrity. She discusses why they abandoned their politicization of rape in the inter-war period and why rape only reappeared as an international security question requiring gender expertise on trauma after the Cold War.

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (review)

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (review)

Southern horrors: women and the politics of rape and lynching

* Introduction: In Black and White * The Horrors of War * The Violent Transition from Freedom to Segregation * Southern White Women and the Anti-rape Movement * Organizing in Defense of Black Womanhood * New Southern Women and the Triumph of White Supremacy * The Lynching of Black and White Women * Equal Rights for Southern Women * The Gender and Racial Politics of the Anti-lynching Movement * Appendix: List of Female Victims of Lynching

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture by Joe Cleary, Claire Connolly

MLR, I03. I, zoo8 2I7 Men, the politics, however, those ofmulticultural Queens with an emphasis on the watching eye and languaging of otherness. Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes,Memory (I 994) is tackled for its footfallsofHaitian required female chastity alongside thevio lence of island sexual as well as political rape as theyplay into an America caught in itsown corresponding dialectic. Women's coming of age, Caribbean and Vietnamese intoAmerican, give Cowart his focus innuanced accounts of Jamaica Kinkaid's Lucy (I990) and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge (I997), the latter tobe interpreted asVietnam's America as much as the other way round. Tristan Martens, theDutch American entomologist at the centre ofMylene Dressler's The Deadwood Beetle (200I), iS to be seen as unable, even inAmerica, and with theKafka echoes well picked up by Cowart, to freehimself of aNazi-shadowed Netherlands familypast. A similar darkness is to be read inWendy Law-Yone's The Coffin Tree (I983), America as uncertain immigrant healing-ground for a Burmese past which has brought pathology into a brother-and-sister American life (Law-Yone's intertextual use of The Tibetan Book of The Dead is excellently excavated). As to JunotDiaz's story cycle Drown (I996), its island-Dominican and New Jersey-Dominican family lives are read as an America shorn of heroics, one ofmask, and frequent cruelty, the very cost of immigrant survival strategy.Cowart rightly terms these impressive stories 'minimalist lyricism' (p. 195). The Diaz chapter completes a fine round of decipherment (even if itwas L. P.Hartley and not H. E. Bates who wrote that 'the past is a foreign country', p. I87), America as not the one but several host contexts togetherwith its latest immigrant literarycanon given articulate recognition. NIHON UNIVERSITY, TOKYO A. ROBERT LEE The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Ed. by JOECLEARY and CLAIRE CONNOLLY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. lii+362 pp. ?I7.99. ISBN 978-0-52I-52629-6. This is a substantial volume, asmuch referencework as companion. Eighteen essays, some twentyormore pages in length, on all aspects of Irish culture are divided into two sections, general and generic. Thus chapters on language, politics, or feminism giveway tochapters on poetry, film,ormusic. The overarching conception ishistori cal and the brief towhich the contributors write is to picture the culture of Ireland from i8oo to thepresent day.The three significant concepts in the title receivemuch theoretical and historical attention, and the firsttwo, 'Modern' and 'Irish', offerup al ways nuanced and aware definitions. The last concept, 'Culture', is surveyed through various genres, providing the ample context fromwhich students will be able to fill in themany suggestions of furthercontent. The contexts will be invaluable for those studying language, literature,or film,say, in amodern andmodernizing academy, but one theme of this book is that for all the recognizable features of amodern culture, students will need a companion tohelp themwith what is specifically 'Irish'. Luke Gibbons can finishhis exhaustive survey of Irish filmby questioning whether Gerry Stembridge's 200I About Adam, set in a newlymetropolitan Dublin, was one of a number of 'truly international films that bore no visible traces of Irishness'. Gibbons is aware that 'theunprecedented growth of theCeltic Tiger economy' has created new conditions foran Irish culture which will not give up the 'cultural speci ficity'of the Irish film. It is a themewhich goes back to an earlier attempt to remove Ireland's cultural specificity, theAct of Union. At the beginning of the book, Joe Cleary's challenging introduction and Alvin Jackson's account of the beginnings of 'modern' Ireland in theUnion with Britain, suggest a theme carried throughout. This is that Irishmodernity differs not only from that of itsBritish neighbour, but also 2i8 Reviews fromother European states. In Cleary's account this is a consequence of colonization persisting into supposedly postcolonial times,where the Irish experience of enlight enment and modernity after 1789 differed fromEurope given the (failed) ideology of theUnited Irishmen and the subsequent experiences of counter-revolution, Union, famine, emigration, and (partial) liberation. The argument ispicked up again inEmer Nolan's account of an Irishmodernism which is,perhaps counter-intuitively,more marked inYeats than Joyce, but also inBernard O'Donoghue's account of poetry founded...

Rome's Disgrace: The Politics of Rape in Shakespeare's Lucrece

Rome's Disgrace: The Politics of Rape in Shakespeare's Lucrece

An Examination of the International Understanding of Political Rape and the Significance of Labeling it Torture

This study aims to discuss and define rape as a form of torture in order to elevate the status of a crime which is consistently under-represented and under-estimated. Rape is seen as a crime committed by one individual against another as a specifically personal, sexual crime, an interpretation which ignores the wider motivations of the act which can be founded on political, religious, cultural grounds, as part of a larger oppressive regime of subordination. Where rape has been assimilated, from the criminal act, into a key weapon of war or violence, it has become instrumental in campaigns for the devastation, destruction and alienation of society, its power extended by the knowledge that the intimate damage done to the actual rape victim will reverberate through the larger social context. It is essential for this type of torture to be recognized as such in order for its victims to be able to fully benefit from the protection and the prevention of

Woman in Decolonization: The National and Textual Politics of Rape in Saadat Hasan Manto and Mahasweta Devi

Woman in Decolonization: The National and Textual Politics of Rape in Saadat Hasan Manto and Mahasweta Devi