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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,278 ratings — published 2014
Asking For It (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 24,886 ratings — published 2015
All the Rage (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,522 ratings — published 2015
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,392 ratings — published 2018
The Female of the Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,767 ratings — published 2016
Exit, Pursued by a Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,756 ratings — published 2016
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.06 — 646,767 ratings — published 1999
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.67 — 278,335 ratings — published 2019
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.12 — 61,446 ratings — published 2015
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,237 ratings — published 2008
The Nowhere Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,845 ratings — published 2017
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,169 ratings — published 1975
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,718 ratings — published 2018
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.38 — 501 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,581,766 ratings — published 1985
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 17,095 ratings — published 2015
Transforming a Rape Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 748 ratings — published 1993
What We Saw (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,121 ratings — published 2015
Some Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,291 ratings — published 2014
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.33 — 44,939 ratings — published 2019
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.28 — 665,304 ratings — published 2016
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,818 ratings — published 2016
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,839 ratings — published 2009
Wrecked (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,783 ratings — published 2016
Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.17 — 224 ratings — published 2013
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,936,264 ratings — published 2011
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,981 ratings — published 2019
Hecha de estrellas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,288 ratings — published 2018
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,540,568 ratings — published 2005
Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.07 — 229,928 ratings — published 2012
The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.02 — 127,110 ratings — published 2020
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,500,419 ratings — published 2018
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,386 ratings — published 2018
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,469 ratings — published 2014
Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,802 ratings — published 2014
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.14 — 257,471 ratings — published 2016
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,734 ratings — published 2010
Luckiest Girl Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.54 — 262,197 ratings — published 2015
Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.92 — 754,580 ratings — published 2009
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.98 — 251,006 ratings — published 2023
I Have Some Questions for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.58 — 147,824 ratings — published 2023
Sadie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.02 — 134,765 ratings — published 2018
Foul Is Fair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,173 ratings — published 2020
The Red Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,587 ratings — published 2018
Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,596 ratings — published 2019
Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 59,985 ratings — published 2018
Any Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 16,407 ratings — published 2018
Blood Water Paint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,418 ratings — published 2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,212 ratings — published 2017
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rape-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,944 ratings — published 2014
“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected.
Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both.
Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them.”
― Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both.
Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them.”
― Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
“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 justifiable rape.' These references confer casualness upon the word, embedding it into our culture, stripping it of shock value, and ultimately numb us to the reality of rape.”
― Sluts
― Sluts
