Rape and Respectability

Ideas about Sexual Violence and Social Class

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2321950
AutoresAlison Phipps (0000-0001-5958-1207, University of Sussex)
Año2009
Volumen43
Número4
Páginas667-683
Fecha de publicación2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038509105414
OpenAlexW2093724345
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas34
Referencias citadas40

Women on low incomes are disproportionately represented among sexual violence survivors, yet feminist research on this topic has paid very little attention to social class.This article blends recent research on class, gender and sexuality with what we know about sexual violence. It is argued that there is a need to engage with classed distinctions between women in terms of contexts for and experiences of sexual violence, and to look at interactions between pejorative constructions of working-class sexualities and how complainants and defendants are perceived and treated. The classed division between the sexual and the feminine, drawn via the notion of respectability, is applied to these issues. This piece is intended to catalyse further research and debate, and raises a number of questions for future work on sexual violence and social class

Class (philosophy) · Criminology · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Pejorative · Political science · Sexual violence · Social class · Social issues · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology