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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
Peggy Reeves Sanday
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Description for Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
Paperback. Examines the nature of campus life today and the possibility of creating a rape-free campus culture Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE2; JFSJ2; JMH; JNMN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation and hazing rituals.
In a substantial new introduction and afterword, Sanday updates the incidences of fraternity gang rape on college campuses today, highlighting such recent cases as that of Duke University and others in the headlines. Sanday also explores the nature of hazing at sororities on campus and how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814740385
SKU
V9780814740385
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Ref
99-50
About Peggy Reeves Sanday
Peggy Reeves Sanday is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of many books, including A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial and, most recently, Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy.
Reviews for Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
A classic. Fraternity Gang Rape is a fascinating analysis of how all-male groups such as fraternities or athletic teams may create a rape culture where behavior occurs that few individuals acting alone would perpetrate. The new introduction and afterword shed light on how this pernicious problem continues today, insightfully illuminating the complicity of society in the failure of accountability for ... Read more