Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape / Edition 1

by Nicola Gavey, Hedvig Sallay

Overview

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, analysing recent research to examine the psychological and cultural conditions of possibility for contemporary sexual violence. Just Sex? argues that feminist theory on sexual victimization has gone both too far and not far enough. It presents the reader with a challenging and original perspective on the issues of rape, sex and the body, incorporating new material on sexism, misogyny and digital culture, as well as debates over gendered analyses of sexual violence.

The second edition has been updated and expanded to be extremely timely and relevant, with the most recent high-profile rape cases – the Stanford rape case and the Belfast rape case – being tried in the media and online. The rise of the Hollywood Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement makes this book incredibly useful and necessary to those who are working within the area of sexual violence.

This will appeal to academic readers studying psychology, sociology, and criminology, as well as those looking into cultural influences on society. It will also be very useful to those working in the professional sector on prevention and with people who have been subjected to sexual violence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415310727
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Series:	Women and Psychology Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Nicola Gavey is Professor of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

PART 1 RAPE IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT

Chapter 1 Rape as a social problem

Chapter 2 The discovery of a rape epidemic

PART 2 GENDER, POWER, AND SEXUALITY – AND THE LIMITS OF INDIVIDUAL CHOICE

Chapter 3 The social construction of sex, subjectivity, and the body

Chapter 4 Heterosexuality under the microscope

Chapter 5 Unsexy sex: Unwanted sex, sexual coercion, and rape

PART 3 GOING TOO FAR, NOT GOING FAR ENOUGH

Chapter 6 Can a woman be raped and not know it?

Chapter 7 Turning the tables? Women raping men

Chapter 8 Toward ending rape

PART 4 REJOINDER FOR THE SECOND EDITION

Chapter 9 The gender of rape culture: Revisiting the cultural scaffolding of rape

Editorial Reviews

'Nicola Gavey's book is a must-read for anyone involved in rape research, prevention and education, or clinical work. ... Her unique viewpoint on many of our favourite (and a few new) controversies in the field make for delicious reading. ... [Her] work does much to dismantle the master's scaffold by getting real about the tools of rape. It is the best book I have read on the topic in many years, and I expect it will find its way to most of your bookshelves.' - Patricia D. Rozee, California State University, in Psychology of Women Quarterly

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