LEADER 04276nam 2200637 c 450 001 9910808413303321 005 20231207101320.0 010 $a0-8135-6604-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813566047 035 $a(CKB)2550000001279471 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001194010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12448040 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001194010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11148736 035 $a(PQKB)10120765 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1680086 035 $a(DE-B1597)526331 035 $a(OCoLC)878405900 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813566047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1680086 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10864842 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL600677 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001279471 100 $a20140511h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFraming the rape victim$egender and agency reconsidered /$fCarine M. Mardorossian 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey$cRutgers University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (178 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-6603-7 311 $a1-306-69426-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Framing the Victim --$t2. Rape and Victimology in Feminist Theory --$t3. "Birth Rape": Laboring Women, Coaching Men, and Natural Childbirth in the Hospital Setting --$t4. Prison Rape, Masculinity, and the Missed Alliances of Hollywood Cinema --$t5. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Diasporic Women's Fiction --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aWinner of the 2016 Nonfiction Category from The Authors' Zone In 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. In Framing the Rape Victim, 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 through immodest behavior, comportment, passivity, or weakness. Contesting the notion that rape is the result of deviant behaviors of victims or perpetrators, Mardorossian argues that rape saturates our culture and defines masculinity's relation to femininity, both of which are structural positions rather than biologically derived ones. Using diverse examples throughout, Mardorossian draws from Hollywood film and popular culture to contemporary women's fiction and hospitalized birth emphasizing that the position of dominant masculinity can be occupied by men, women, or institutions, while structural femininity is a position that may define and subordinate men, minorities, and other marginalized groups just as effectively as it does women. Highlighting the legacies of the politically correct debates of the 1990's and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the book illustrates how the framing of the term "victim" has played a fundamental role in constructing notions of agency that valorize autonomy and support exclusionary, especially masculine, models of American selfhood. The gendering of rape, including by well-meaning, sometimes feminist, voices that claim to have victims' best interests at heart, ultimately obscures its true role in our culture. Both a critical analysis and a call to action, Framing the Rape Victim shows that rape is not a special interest issue that pertains just to women but a pervasive one that affects our society as a whole. 606 $aRape victims$zUnited States 606 $aRape$zUnited States 606 $aWomen$xViolence against$zUnited States 606 $aRape in motion pictures 615 0$aRape victims 615 0$aRape 615 0$aWomen$xViolence against 615 0$aRape in motion pictures. 676 $a362.8830973 700 $aMardorossian$b Carine M.$f1966-$01605531 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808413303321 996 $aFraming the rape victim$93930822 997 $aUNINA