Rape Culture


Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
Asking For It
All the Rage
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
The Female of the Species
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
Speak
Know My Name
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
The Nowhere Girls
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out
The Handmaid's Tale
Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I wouldn't have thought much about, except that when I was in high school a girl gave her senior speech on her best friend's rape. She ended not with an appear for women's rights or self defense, but by begging us to consider our language. We use the word 'rape' so casually, for sports, for a failed test, to spice up jokes. 'The test raped me.' 'His smile went up to just ...more
Christine Stockton, Sluts

Judith Lewis Herman
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men. ...more
Judith Lewis Herman

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