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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"rape culture"”.
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Recreating Resistance: Rape Culture Resistance Through Human Rights Education
<p>Sexual violence and rape culture are substantial issues in our society and on our college campuses. The goal of this project is to provide research that investigates rape culture on college campuses as a human rights violation and ways to address it in an intersectional manner through human …
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Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture
… to speak out against two key aspects of rape culture: slut-shaming and victim-blaming. SlutWalk protesters simultaneously advocate a sex-positive stance while lashing back at rape culture. This thesis examines SlutWalks as a form of modern protest that utilizes the Internet to create a …
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Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture
… to speak out against two key aspects of rape culture: slut-shaming and victim-blaming. SlutWalk protesters simultaneously advocate a sex-positive stance while lashing back at rape culture. This thesis examines SlutWalks as a form of modern protest that utilizes the Internet to create a …
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Not just a joke : rape culture in Internet memes about #MeToo
… scholarship on discourse, affect, humour, rape culture and online misogyny in order to provide a contribution to the field of feminist digital media studies.;I employ a case study approach to my data set of 866 Internet memes collected from three social media platforms, 9gag, Reddit and …
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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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The role of institutional discourses in the perpetuation and propagation of rape culture on an American campus
Rape cultures in the United States facilitate acts of rape by influencing perpetrators’, community members’, and women who survive rapes’ beliefs about sexual assault and its consequences. While much of the previous research on rape in university settings has focused on individual attitudes and …
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Sexual Violence, Rape Culture, and the Ethics of Care in <em>Promising Young Woman</em> (2020), <em>Blink Twice</em> (2024), and <em>Women Talking</em> (2022)
<p>Evolving public discourse on rape and rape culture is reflected in contemporary cinema. This thesis analyzes <em>Promising Young Woman</em> (2020), <em>Blink Twice</em> (2024), and <em>Women Talking</em> (2022)—all directed by women—through the theoretical framework of the ethics of care, …
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From Brock to Brett
… stellt die These auf, dass das Phänomen der rape culture ein soziokulturelles System gesellschaftlicher Machtstrukturen und kultureller Mythen darstellt. Basierend auf sogenannten Vergewaltigungsmythen konstituiert dieses System zudem eine Ideologie. Ziel der Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, wie …
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Taking Parties Seriously: Gendered Sexuality and Hook Up Culture at Greek Social Events
… in order to better understand hooking up and rape culture. While past work on rape culture has tended to look at fraternities as isolated organizations (Boswell and Spade 1996, Sanday 1990), this research takes into consideration that sororities and fraternities are constantly interacting …
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Questions for Amma: Tracing the manifestations of violence on the South African Indian Female body
… the limitations and barriers of identity, culture and society. As this study positions the brown female body as a site for violence and codification, it challenges the mythical and stereotypically gendered representations of brown females in media and culture. In examining the performance …
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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women
… Emerging themes revealed the pervasiveness of rape culture, pro-attitudes of violence against women, male victimization and oppression, sexual entitlement, and masculinity crises. </p>
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Women's Experiences of Internalized Sexism
… resistance, adverse health impacts, and rape culture. The themes highlighted significant areas that were commonly experienced across multiple identifiers within the heterogenous group of women. Results provide a complex and more comprehensive way of understanding women’s experiences of …
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Why We Are Angry: Rearticulating Fisher's Narrative Paradigm with Interactivity and Hypertext
In December 2012, the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh in New Delhi, India sparked international outrage leading to numerous protests. Singh’s story raised many questions regarding sexual violence and rape culture in India. We Are Angry is a digital narrative that responds to sexual …
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How to Keep the Girls Inside
… as a female within the confines of an elusive rape culture—affects the narrator as she navigates first through childhood, plagued by her young mother’s tragedies, then as she struggles to recognize her own sexual identity in her young adulthood, without the guidance of her mother who is also …
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Over, Then Over Again, Over: A Poetics of Disorder
… identity reformation in conversation with rape culture as the violence inherent to fetishizing purity. Expanding what constitutes a text, this work includes textiles as communicative sites that redefine the sentence as a narrative vehicle. This project enacts medical, poetic, and tactilic …
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Consent and meaningful experiences at regional Burning Man events
… project sought to explore the impact of consent culture on the experiences of participants at Regional Burning Man Events (Burns). The study expanded the tourism studies literature about the importance of consent on tourists’ experiences and further validates the applicability of Maslow’s …
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Recontextualising Viral Justice: Social Media, Feminist Connective Action and the 2021 Injection Spiking Incidents.
… and subsequent discussions of the pervasive rape culture in the UK, dominated online discourse for several months before largely disappearing, in what I term a viral social justice event. Through an adaptive digital ethnographic approach, conducted in the face of increasing restrictions on …
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Going Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age
… in the context of performing hetero-masculinity, rape culture, and shifting disclosure norms and ethics resulting from social media logics and the attention economies in which they are situated.</p> <p>My research also details the contradictory potential of social media for sexual assault …
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Walk like a man: a content analysis of anti-sexual violence websites for men
… out to answer was whether these sites perpetuate rape myth acceptance. The study began with a literature review of rape myth acceptance theory and anti-sexual assault campaigns. One important theme from the literature is that holding stereotypical or traditional gender role beliefs is the number …
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Landscape architecture and gender
… realm. Landscape positionality, the Nature/Culture dualism, Ecofeminism and Landscape theory are aligned in this Study, that engages with a topic that warrants a great deal of further research and development. The gendered experience, most often taking the form of various manifestations of …
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