Shows why the movement against sexual violence needs the humanitiesnow more than ever.
New Rape Studies advances a new generation of writers who join a long genealogy of feminist thinkers in grounding their critiques of sexual violence in humanistic disciplines such as literary criticism, film studies, and art history. Aesthetic ways of knowing and cultural forms of intervention are increasingly urgent in a political landscape in which the common response to sexual violence has been an appeal to the state, whether carceral solutions advocated by some voices in the #MeToo movement or educational approaches led by national public health organizations. In fourteen essays, contributors draw on humanistic methods and objects to envision a feminist politics that transforms what has come to be called "rape culture"above all, by re-committing to "culture" itself as the terrain of political contest.
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"Thoughtfully rooted in the history of feminist activism, New Rape Studies marks both a return to a set of concerns from the 1970s and a promising move forward in new directions, formulating innovative ways to examine the persistent phenomenon of rape as it manifests in canonical texts, on college campuses, and across culture writ large. Writing with clarity and urgency from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, contributors push beyond the intellectual impasse that has dominated feminist conversations about rape, sex, and consent. Together, they call for continued, widespread attention to the issue and topic of sexual violence, while modeling a generous reconceptualization of the social and political stakes of this project." Sujata Moorti, author of Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres
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Shows why the movement against sexual violence needs the humanitiesnow more than ever.
Acknowledgments
Introduction Capacious Categories Beyond Law and Public Health: Thinking Rape
Aesthetically
Michael T. Dango, Erin A. Spampinato, and Doreen Thierauf
Part 1: Capacious Categories
1. Rereading Rape in the Critical Canon: Adjudicative Criticism and the
Capacious Conception of Rape
Erin A. Spampinato
2. Wittgenstein and the Standard Picture of Rape
Michael T. Dango
3. What Counts and Doesn't Count as Rape in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Nora Gilbert
4. Looking for Rape: The Challenge of Emma Sulkowicz's Ceci n'est pas un viol
Angelique Szymanek
5. Behind the Times: Unacknowledged Rape of Male Characters in Literature and
Film
Kimberly Cox
Part 2: New Methods of Reading Rape in History
6. Gripped: Rape Studies and Sexual Dimorphism
Doreen Thierauf
7. Rape Culture: A Literary History from Ovid to Shakespeare
Diana Bellonby
8. Medieval False Allegation Narratives and Their Contemporary Legacies:
Angry Women, Nonconsenting Men, and Alternate Rape Cultures
Carissa M. Harris
9. The Geoffrey Chaucer Revelations: A Reflection
Mariah L. Cooper
10. HMS Dolphin: The Ship That Lost Its Integrity and Found the Myth of the
Nail
N. S. 'Ilaheva Tua'one
Part 3: From Representation to Its Aftermath
11. The Black Living Room
Shoniqua Roach
12. Closely Associated: The Metonymic Logic of Rape Culture
Seo-Young Chu
13. How a Mattress Goes Viral: Challenging Rape Culture Through Viral
Performance
Anna Maria Broussard
14. Aftershock Theory: Rape, Epigenetics, Transgenerational Trauma, and The
Beetle
Marlene Tromp
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Michael T. Dango is Associate Professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Rice University. He is the author of Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair. Erin A. Spampinato is an independent scholar. Doreen Thierauf is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan University.
