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Book SynopsisIn recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential treatment of rape has exacerbated the ghettoizing of sexual violence along gendered lines and has repeatedly led to women’s being accused of triggering, if not causing, rape.
Trade Review“With a distinctive, innovative, and powerful feminist voice, Mardorossian makes a fantastic contribution to the scholarship on sexual violence that will excite much interest and fuel many debates.
Framing the Rape Victim is simply brilliant.”
-- Joanna Bourke * author of Rape: Sex, Violence, History *
"Mardorossian powerfully illustrates how aversion to 'victim rhetoric' has valorized agency but ignored the ways political and cultural institutions shape experiences of choice, consent, autonomy, and vulnerability."
-- Rose Corrigan * author of Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success *
"A powerful critique."
* Ms. Magazine *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Framing the Victim
2. Rape and Victimology in Feminist Theory
3. "Birth Rape": Laboring Women, Coaching Men, and Natural Childbirth in the Hospital Setting
4. Prison Rape, Masculinity, and the Missed Alliances of Hollywood Cinema
5. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Diasporic Women's Fiction
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
