RAPE CULTURE 101: Programming Change





Price: $34.95

Page Count: 284

Publication Date: June 2020

ISBN: 978-1-77258-227-7

Many people have been victims of rape, but we are all victims of what has been called a “rape culture.”  This topic deserves more attention towards education and prevention, and not just on the college campus.  Rape culture is an idea that links rape and sexual violence to the culture of a society, and in which commonly-held beliefs, attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone rape. This edited collection examines rape culture in the context of the current programming–attitudes, education, and awareness. Contributors explore changing the programming in terms of educational processes, practices and experiences associated with rape culture across diverse cultural, historical, and geographic locations. The complexity of rape culture is discussed from a variety of contexts and perspectives, as this volume contains interdisciplinary academic submissions from educators and students, as well as experiential accounts from members of various community settings who are doing work aimed at making a positive difference towards programming change.

Rape Culture 101: Programming Change by Becker and Dionne examines cultural nuances we often fail to grasp when trying to identify appropriate action to decrease sexual violence on college campuses as well as in our society. Each chapter identifies different pervasive, culturally held opinions, attitudes, or beliefs and considers potential change needed. Most definitely a text that will stimulate conversation and a new understanding of rape culture.

-Cheryl Roberts, Nursing Instructor, Fort Kent, Maine

This book could not come out at a better time with the #metoo movement becoming mainstream. Now the silence can be broken. The collection explores many and diverse themes to expose rape culture across the globe.

-Marie Doerner, Educator in the field of disabilities.

1: Introduction: The “Bigger Picture” Essay on Rape Culture—
Programming Change, the Call and Response
Geraldine Cannon Becker, Jessica Boynton, et. al. 8
2: Depictions of Rape in the Ancient World: A Brief Survey
Joseph E. Becker 24
3: All Rapists Go to Preschool: A Call to the Radical Reformation of the Normalization and Aggrandization of Violence, Domination, Misogyny and Entitlement in American Boyhood
Mary Bronstein 30
4: Men, Masculinities, and Responses to Rape
Emily Colpitts 56
5: U.S. College Women’s Reports of Rape, Resistance, and Prevention: A Case Study of One Campus
Abigail L. Moser and Lynne M. Webb 80
6: Memorable Messages in Campus Sexual Assault Prevention
Katherine J. Denker & Faith R. Kellermeyer 108
7: Politics of Consent and the Problem with Focusing on Violence
Olga Marques and Jen Rinaldi 128
8: Rape Culture: The need for an intersectional, comprehensive social justice movement
Leigh Gaskin 148
9: Online Rape Culture and Bystander Intervention
Jodie Bowers & Carolyn M. Cunningham 160
10: American Rape Culture: The Circulation of Affect, Victim-Blaming, and Cyborg Vaginas
Erin Rachel Kaplan 182
11: “Unrapeable?”: Rape Myths and Fat Women
Tracy Royce 206
12: The Indian Film Industry: Feeding Rape Culture in India
Kirthi Jayakumar 222
13: Tragedy of Rape Trials: Women, Modesty and the Law
Priyanka Nupur 230
14: Changing India’s Rape Culture: A Focus on Cultural Values, Bollywood, and Rape Laws, Education and Interventions
Sona Kaur & Eileen L. Zurbriggen 254
15: Disrupting Ideological Comfortability about Rape: Strategies for the Classroom
Carole Sheffield 284

Geraldine Cannon Becker, Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, USA, holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing—Poetry, and M.A. in Depth Psychology. Having widely published a variety of creative work/essays, she leads SoulFlowering Workshops for the North Woods Jung Society and Institute.

Angel Dionne, English professor at the University of Moncton Edmundston campus in New Brunswick, Canada, is currently completing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Pretoria. Her creative work has appeared in various publications including Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Missing Slate Magazine, and Good Morning Magazine.