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Showing 1 to 20 of 575 for “"Rape"”.
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Rape Card
Rape Card is a fifteen-minute narrative film that attempts to explore the terrifying rise of apathetic attitudes towards sexual assault that are plaguing societies and being perpetuated through the entertainment industry all over the world.
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When is it rape? The role of rape and seduction scripts
Accompanying the high prevalence of rape among college women is a high prevalence of unacknowledged rape, or women who have been raped who do not label it as such. The current studies explore one theory which may help account for unacknowledged rape, script theory. Specifically, it may be that …
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Subjective accounts of post-rape adjustment amongst South African rape survivors
… aimed to explore the subjective experiences of rape survivors, with a greater focus on the ongoing process of post-rape adjustment, as compared with the immediate psychological impact. The research employed feminist, qualitative methodology. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten rape …
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Rape crisis counsellors' experiences of working with rape survivors in Cape Town
… documents the clinical knowledges gained by Rape Crisis counsellors working with rape survivors in Cape Town. It includes a description of the demographic profile of their clients, the rape experiences that their clients report, the psychological difficulties that clients present with, the …
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Rape Violence in India
<p>The weaponization of rape in International Relations is often analyzed through the lens of Realism, focusing on cases where rape is systematically used as a tactic of war by enemy combatants or as “spoils of war”. This phenomenon is evidenced by high-profile incidents in World War II Japan …
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Stigmatic effects of rape
Some clinical and attitudinal issues of rape victim stigmatization are addressed in two studies. The clinical study provides figures for occurrence of sexual abuse and rape based on naturally occurring data obtained from the clinical records of 265 women admitted to two South African inpatient …
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Talking about rape: a discursive study of convicted adult rapists' accounts of rape
At least 167 women are raped every day in the UK, yet rape remains one of the most under reported and least prosecuted of all violent crimes. Low conviction rates can be attributed in part to the failings of the criminal justice system including the infiltration of rape myths into said system and …
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Rape, revenge, reclamation: An analysis of female agency in American rape-revenge films
… thesis, I will analyze five films that have a rape-revenge narrative: Ms. 45 (1981), M.F.A. (2017), I Spit on Your Grave (1978), I Spit on Your Grave (2010), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). I will argue that the violent actions taken by the female protagonist during her revenge …
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Constructing rape, imagining self : discourses of rape and gender subjectivity in South Africa
This thesis explores the meanings and impact of rape in South Africa for fifteen women located at the University of Cape Town (UCT) who claim to have never experienced rape. Drawing upon feminist post-structuralist theories of subjectivity and taking a discursive analytic approach, the thesis …
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“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature
<p>Adolescent novels about rape are one way to discuss rape and rape culture with a young audience. These novels can depict and challenge aspects of rape culture, including the myths that ultimately reinforce a culture hostile to rape victims. Considering the prevalence of rape in society at large, …
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Women as Perpetrators: Male Rape
Historically, rape has been defined as a crime predominantly committed by men (Eriksson, 2011). A wealth of literature exists on female experiences of sexual violence; for decades feminist academics have researched the topic, portraying rape as an abuse of power used to dominate females in a …
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Improving understanding of rape proclivity
… that together aimed to improve understanding of rape proclivity as a potential construct related to sexual violence. In the first study, participants' understanding of the items on the Rape Proclivity Measure were assessed to gain insight into participants' perspectives about rape scenarios and …
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Rape: Risk, Confrontation and Normalization
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:46:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820948.pdf: 10372847 bytes, checksum: 364a5c9c5cacaa459c81145f529da0a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Masculinity on Trial in South Africa? The Zuma Rape Trial, Rape, HIV and AIDS and Masculinities
From the Foreword: [...] South Africa is a country, which has not only huge problems but also ambitious goals, socially and politically. Some of them will be addressed in this Thesis. Since the country became a democratic state in 1994, South Africa has tried to overcome more than 50 years of …
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‘’It’s not just the rape’’: an ecological exploration of the factors impacting female sexuality after rape
… of the interacting factors influencing rape recovery and sexuality. However, research into the ecological factors associated with rape recovery is limited and fails to focus on function of behaviour, and the context of an individual’s protective strategies. Furthermore, despite the …
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Classic rape and police reporting: how much has changed since the advent of rape reform law?
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Schematic effects of rape myth acceptance
… investigates the type of influence exerted by rape myth acceptance (RMA). Rape myths may be defined as "beliefs about rape (i.e., about its causes, context, consequences, perpetrators, victims, and their interaction) that serve to deny, downplay or justify male sexual aggression against women" …
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Rape myth acceptance in college students
… between variables that may be related to rape myth acceptance in college students. Identifying variables that may be related to rape myth acceptance is essential for improving rape prevention programming. The setting chosen to examine these variables consisted of 349 students enrolled in …
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Spiritual healing experiences of rape survivors
The incidence of rape in South Africa is high. A total of 50 481 rape cases were reported in 2010. Rape trauma is exacerbated by the fact that the country has a limited number of professionally trained therapists to attend to survivors. Most survivors end up looking for assistance from their …
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