Shifting the Rape Script

“Coming Out” Online as a Rape Victim

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11241271
AutoresRachel Loney-Howes (0000-0001-8705-157X, autor de correspondencia), Rachel Loney-Howes Rachel Loney-Howes
Año2018
Volumen39
Número2
Páginas26
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFrontiers A Journal of Women Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0160-9009 • E-ISSN: 1536-0334
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5250/fronjwomestud.39.2.0026
OpenAlexW2811116632
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25
Referencias citadas35

The experience of being raped and the associated trauma is often conceptualized as "unspeakable" in that it cannot be put into a comprehensible language.1 Yet the very notion that rape is something unspeakable serves to normalize rules governing the permissibility of speaking about rape, tacitly enforcing the shame that surrounds sexual violence and maintaining victim-survivors' silence. The unspeakability of rape is also perpetuated by the criminal justice system through its power to define what is and is not rape, thereby denying those whose experience falls outside legal definitions the recognition and permission to claim their experience as rape

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