Marolla explore and examine the perception of rape. Boswell and Spade’s article on collegiate rape culture focuses on the different environments and their effect on gender relations. Scully and Marolla’s article on the vocabulary of rapists mainly focuses on how rapists explain and justify their actions. Fraternity brothers and convicted rapists share certain perceptions and reactions towards rape and its victims. They are both involved within a pervasive rape culture that blames female victims for their
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Instructor: Y. Iwasa Summary In the beginning of this article it describes on how rape became. The cause is “medicalized” a social problem. The two sociologists interviewed a sample of men who had been sent to prison for rape. The men talked about their motives on why they committed these violent acts. An assumption is that male sexual aggression is unusual or strange. The feminist perspective views rape as an act of violence and social control to “keep women in their place.” They also view
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Article 7 Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on Views of Gender Julia T. Wood Department of Communication‚ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill times more often than ones about women (“Study Reports Sex Bias‚” 1989)‚ media misrepresent actual proportions of men and women in the population. This constant distortion tempts us to believe that there really are more men than women and‚ further‚ that men are the cultural standard. THEMES IN MEDIA Of the many influences on how we view
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Stephanie George Kelly O ’Connor-Salomon Popular and Contemporary Literature March 24‚ 2013 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Critical Reflection Part I The critic and scholar Karen Sanchez-Eppler says‚ "Narrative formulas index cultural obsessions." The narrative formula for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson follows two unlikely heros‚ each guided by their own set of principles and outlooks on the world and influenced by the events in the story‚ coming together to solve a seemingly
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Unfortunately‚ this is a very touchy subject because it happens way too often and can leave a person wondering why they were the victim of such a crime. Although‚ this is not a new crime but in fact a crime that has been going on for many years. Now rape is defined as the commission of unlawful sexual intercourse or unlawful sexual intrusion (legal-dictionary‚ n.d). Therefore‚ I will discuss the different types of rapist and their behavior. The first type of rapist I will discuss is the Power-Reassurance
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conspirator is someone who influences the way people react to rape. The unnamed conspirator is also taught by our parents and by society itself. An example is a woman blaming herself for being raped. In the back of the victims mind she is responsible for being raped; if she just wouldn’t have met him at the bar‚ if she wouldn’t have taken him back to her place and if she wouldn’t have been drinking she wouldn’t have been a victim of rape. The way that women view themselves is strongly influenced by
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rapist’s face and other characteristics in the case that she made it out alive. Thomas was able to escape and ran to a police station and with the help of a detective‚ she was able to make a composite sketch of the perpetrator. The rapist also managed to rape another woman a few blocks down from Thomas’s apartment. Once the sketch was release to the public‚ tips came in about a man named Ronald Cotton. Cotton had a record of sexual assault and breaking and entering. A photo spread was done and Jennifer
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Review‚ Helen Fenwick (Marital rights or partial immunity?)‚ (1992) NLJ pp831-832; (1992) NLJ pp870-871 The rape within marriage was not a crime and this principle had stood for centuries until 1992. In the case of R ([1991] 2 All ER 257) the rape within marriage was constituted as a serious crime. Before it became a law it was place for debates and Professor Glanville Williams had given his proposals how the law should be changed on this topic. The current article of the author of Helen Fenwick
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charged with rape‚ reveals a widespread problem of gender violence. The rape trial of Former Deputy President Jacob Zuma has brought attention to the alarming fact that South African women experience high levels of violence. People Opposing Woman Abuse (POWA)‚ an organization whose aim is to draw attention to social and legal problems around sexual violence in South Africa‚ estimate that a woman is raped in South Africa approximately every twenty-six seconds. Only one in nine rapes is ever reported
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named Melinda who goes through a ton of drama over the summer before and during her freshman year. A boy named Andy Evans sees Melinda and comes by her. He stays with her all night. Later through the night he brings her away from everyone else and rapes her. Melinda is terrified and calls the police. Rachel‚ her former best friend‚ finds out and leaves her at the party. Rachel hates Melinda for involving the police. Melinda walks home to an empty house‚ refuses to speak and isolates herself from
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