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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2004.
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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.