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Public rape : representing violation in fiction and film /

The author considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of "public rape", she looks at how images of rape - from news stories to Hollywood films and popular fiction - serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class differ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horeck, Tanya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Sussex studies in culture and communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. Primal scenes. 1. Origin stories : rape, fantasy and the foundations of feminism
  • 2. Body politics : Rousseau's Le Lévite d'Ephraim
  • Part II. The spectacle of rape. 3. Rape is not a spectator sport : the New Bedford Big Dan's gang rape
  • 4. They did worse than nothing : rape and spectatorship in The Accused
  • Part III. Rewriting rape. 5. More intimate than violence : Sarah Dunant's Transgressions
  • 6. Rape on tape? Raw Deal : A Question of Consent
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.