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Rape and Representation
Lynn Higgins
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Description for Rape and Representation
Hardback. Editor(s): Silver, Brenda R. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 326 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JKV; LNAA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how cultural forms construct and reenforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature not only reflects but also contributes to what a society believes about itself. Fourteen essays by authors in the fields of English, American and African-American, German, ... Read more
Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how cultural forms construct and reenforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature not only reflects but also contributes to what a society believes about itself. Fourteen essays by authors in the fields of English, American and African-American, German, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
326
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231072663
SKU
V9780231072663
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About Lynn Higgins
Lynn A. Higgins is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is author of Parables of Theory: Jean Ricardou's Metafiction and a forthcoming book on the French New Novelists and New Wave Filmmakers in their historical context. Brenda R. Silver is Professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Virginia Woolf's Reading ... Read more
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