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Author Fanghanel, Alexandra, author

Title Disrupting rape culture : public space, sexuality and revolt / Alexandra Fanghanel
Published Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Series Policy Press scholarship online
Policy Press scholarship online
Contents 1. Causing trouble; Penetrated spaces; Defining a rape culture; Disruptive bodies; Straying power; 'Becoming- machinic'; Outline of the book; Coda; 2. Disruptive pregnancy; Pregnancy as a feminist problem; Framing the 'sexy' pregnancy; Heretical ethics; Sexual harassment and pregnancy: A public confinement?; Researching sexual harassment in pregnancy; The mundanity of sexual harassment; Pregnant potentialities; 3. Disruptive protests; Protests: The spectacular and the cursed; Erotic violence I; Naked, but not bare; Becoming-Godiva?; Protest as commodity; Erotic violence II; Animal politics; Becoming-animal?; Can naked protests in public space transform rape culture?; 4. Disruptive play; Disruptive sexual stories; Establishing community; Penetrating the mainstream; Difficulties of belonging: establishing hierarchies; The ban; The pillory; Kink as revolution?; 5. Disruptive bodies; The guerrilla war machine, Becoming-, and the margin; Sex -negative/positive- machines; Becoming-ugly, or: how to break a rape culture; Towards a praxis of disruption
Summary Despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and gendered violence, it remains a serious problem. Using case studies from the US and UK this book explains how it happens, what it means and how it can be contested
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 11, 2019)
Subject Rape.
Women -- Crimes against.
Women -- Social conditions.
Space perception -- Social aspects
Crime Victims
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sexual Abuse & Harassment.
Rape
Space perception -- Social aspects
Women -- Crimes against
Women -- Social conditions
Form Electronic book
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