Martha Mccaughey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Mccaughey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccaughey |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAUGHEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9788-1841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Violations of Sexual and Information Privacy: Understanding Dataraid in a (Cyber)Rape Culture
Technology-facilitated sexual violence is a violation unique to the digital age that extends the analog-era rape culture, but electronic privacy invasions are often an overlooked part of these violations. This article examines three emblematic cases of information privacy violations that get used, framed, or rationalized in connection with violations of sexual privacy. In showing how aggressive electronic intrusions borrow the well-worn tropes of…
Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense
An examination of women's self-defense culture and its relationship to feminism. I was once a frightened feminist. So begins Martha McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self- defense, a culture which transforms women involved with it and which has equally profound implications for feminist theory and activism. Unprecedented numbers of American women are learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. Sales of mac…
Changing the Hidden Curriculum of Campus Rape Prevention and Education: Women’s Self-Defense as a Key Protective Factor for a Public Health Model of Prevention
Recent activist, policy, and government efforts to engage in campus rape prevention education (RPE), culminating in the 2014 White House Task Force recommendations to combat campus sexual assault, prompt a need to examine the concept of “prevention” in the context of sexual assault on U.S. college campuses and their surrounding community service agencies. This article reviews previous research on effective resistance to sexual assault, showing th…
Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Cyberactivism
Victim Vaginas: The V-Day Campaign and the Vagina as Symbol of Female Vulnerability
Medium Jam
Theorizing Sexual Violence
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film
Got Milk: Breastfeeding as an ‘Incurably Informed’ Feminist STS Scholar
Got Milk?' considers the author's own commitment to and experience of breastfeeding as a mother/intellectual, examining ways of theorizing embodiment and complex bio-social practices while also showing just how complicated living/ embodying feminist STS theory can be. Many breastfeeding advocates are naive about nature, technology, and gender issues, and many feminist STS scholars focus on the pregnant body, rather than the lactating body, to dis…
Can Unscrewed be unskewed? Television coverage of the Internet
This paper documents one way the Internet is presented to the public by analyzing a late–night TV talk show about the Internet called Unscrewed on the TechTV cable network. I gained the opportunity to study Unscrewed, and attempt to influence its focus, when I was invited to appear as a guest on their show after having e–mailed them a criticism of their sexist coverage of the Internet — specifically their positioning of women as pretty objects to…
Women’s sex-toy parties: Technology, orgasm, and commodification
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and (Male) Hysteria over John Bobbitt's Missing Manhood
This article draws on feminist theory and psychoanalysis to analyze the media discourse surrounding the 1993 incident in which Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband's penis after he allegedly raped her. Touted as the ultimate example of 'male bashing,' Lorena's literal emasculation of John was described in the media as a specific instance of feminism's more general emasculation of men. This framing, like castration anxiety itself, reveals the intima…
The Fighting Spirit: Women's Self-Defense Training and the Discourse of Sexed Embodiment
This article presents ethnographic research on women's self-defense training and suggests that women's self-defense culture prompts feminists to refigure our understanding of the body and violence. The body in feminist discourse is often construed as the object of patriarchal violence (actual or symbolic), and violence has been construed as something that is variously oppressive, diminishing, inappropriate, and masculinist. Hence, many feminists …
Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity: Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug
Research Article| June 01 1996 Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity: Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug Martha McCaughey Martha McCaughey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1996) 3 (2-3): 261-287. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-2-3-261 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Martha McCaughey; Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculin…
Rape Education Videos: Presenting Mean Women Instead of Dangerous Men
This paper examines two ways to use visual images while teaching about sexual violence. We first present and critique the conventional approach, which employs images of men doing violence to women. We then discuss our approach, which employs images of women confronting and violently attacking men. We discuss our success in using these images in our rape prevention lectures over the past three years. Our analysis of students' reactions to the pres…
Evolution, ethics and the search for certainty
Redirecting Feminist Critiques of Science
Applying the insights of Donna Haraway (1989, 1991) and Helen Longino (1989, 1990), this paper reviews Sandra Harding's (1986a) tripartite model of feminist critiques of science—empiricist, standpoint, and postmodern—and argues that it is based on misunderstandings of the relationship between scientific inquiry, objectivity, and values. An alternative view of scientific inquiry makes it possible to see feminist scientists as postmodern and postmo…
Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
The Fighting Spirit: Women's Self-Defense Training and the Discourse of Sexed Embodiment
This article presents ethnographic research on women's self-defense training and suggests that women's self-defense culture prompts feminists to refigure our understanding of the body and violence. The body in feminist discourse is often construed as the object of patriarchal violence (actual or symbolic), and violence has been construed as something that is variously oppressive, diminishing, inappropriate, and masculinist. Hence, many feminists …
Women’s sex-toy parties: Technology, orgasm, and commodification
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and (Male) Hysteria over John Bobbitt's Missing Manhood
This article draws on feminist theory and psychoanalysis to analyze the media discourse surrounding the 1993 incident in which Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband's penis after he allegedly raped her. Touted as the ultimate example of 'male bashing,' Lorena's literal emasculation of John was described in the media as a specific instance of feminism's more general emasculation of men. This framing, like castration anxiety itself, reveals the intima…
Got Milk: Breastfeeding as an ‘Incurably Informed’ Feminist STS Scholar
Got Milk?' considers the author's own commitment to and experience of breastfeeding as a mother/intellectual, examining ways of theorizing embodiment and complex bio-social practices while also showing just how complicated living/ embodying feminist STS theory can be. Many breastfeeding advocates are naive about nature, technology, and gender issues, and many feminist STS scholars focus on the pregnant body, rather than the lactating body, to dis…
Redirecting Feminist Critiques of Science
Applying the insights of Donna Haraway (1989, 1991) and Helen Longino (1989, 1990), this paper reviews Sandra Harding's (1986a) tripartite model of feminist critiques of science—empiricist, standpoint, and postmodern—and argues that it is based on misunderstandings of the relationship between scientific inquiry, objectivity, and values. An alternative view of scientific inquiry makes it possible to see feminist scientists as postmodern and postmo…
Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity: Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug
Research Article| June 01 1996 Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity: Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug Martha McCaughey Martha McCaughey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1996) 3 (2-3): 261-287. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-2-3-261 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Martha McCaughey; Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculin…
Rape Education Videos: Presenting Mean Women Instead of Dangerous Men
This paper examines two ways to use visual images while teaching about sexual violence. We first present and critique the conventional approach, which employs images of men doing violence to women. We then discuss our approach, which employs images of women confronting and violently attacking men. We discuss our success in using these images in our rape prevention lectures over the past three years. Our analysis of students' reactions to the pres…
Evolution, ethics and the search for certainty
Evolution, ethics and the search for certainty
Redirecting Feminist Critiques of Science
Applying the insights of Donna Haraway (1989, 1991) and Helen Longino (1989, 1990), this paper reviews Sandra Harding's (1986a) tripartite model of feminist critiques of science—empiricist, standpoint, and postmodern—and argues that it is based on misunderstandings of the relationship between scientific inquiry, objectivity, and values. An alternative view of scientific inquiry makes it possible to see feminist scientists as postmodern and postmo…
Rape Education Videos: Presenting Mean Women Instead of Dangerous Men
This paper examines two ways to use visual images while teaching about sexual violence. We first present and critique the conventional approach, which employs images of men doing violence to women. We then discuss our approach, which employs images of women confronting and violently attacking men. We discuss our success in using these images in our rape prevention lectures over the past three years. Our analysis of students' reactions to the pres…
Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity: Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug
Research Article| June 01 1996 Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculinity: Or, Getting Rid of the Heterosexual Bug Martha McCaughey Martha McCaughey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1996) 3 (2-3): 261-287. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-2-3-261 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Martha McCaughey; Perverting Evolutionary Narratives of Heterosexual Masculin…
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and (Male) Hysteria over John Bobbitt's Missing Manhood
This article draws on feminist theory and psychoanalysis to analyze the media discourse surrounding the 1993 incident in which Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband's penis after he allegedly raped her. Touted as the ultimate example of 'male bashing,' Lorena's literal emasculation of John was described in the media as a specific instance of feminism's more general emasculation of men. This framing, like castration anxiety itself, reveals the intima…
The Fighting Spirit: Women's Self-Defense Training and the Discourse of Sexed Embodiment
This article presents ethnographic research on women's self-defense training and suggests that women's self-defense culture prompts feminists to refigure our understanding of the body and violence. The body in feminist discourse is often construed as the object of patriarchal violence (actual or symbolic), and violence has been construed as something that is variously oppressive, diminishing, inappropriate, and masculinist. Hence, many feminists …
Women’s sex-toy parties: Technology, orgasm, and commodification
Can Unscrewed be unskewed? Television coverage of the Internet
This paper documents one way the Internet is presented to the public by analyzing a late–night TV talk show about the Internet called Unscrewed on the TechTV cable network. I gained the opportunity to study Unscrewed, and attempt to influence its focus, when I was invited to appear as a guest on their show after having e–mailed them a criticism of their sexist coverage of the Internet — specifically their positioning of women as pretty objects to…
Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in Film
Got Milk: Breastfeeding as an ‘Incurably Informed’ Feminist STS Scholar
Got Milk?' considers the author's own commitment to and experience of breastfeeding as a mother/intellectual, examining ways of theorizing embodiment and complex bio-social practices while also showing just how complicated living/ embodying feminist STS theory can be. Many breastfeeding advocates are naive about nature, technology, and gender issues, and many feminist STS scholars focus on the pregnant body, rather than the lactating body, to dis…
Theorizing Sexual Violence
Medium Jam
Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Cyberactivism
Victim Vaginas: The V-Day Campaign and the Vagina as Symbol of Female Vulnerability
Changing the Hidden Curriculum of Campus Rape Prevention and Education: Women’s Self-Defense as a Key Protective Factor for a Public Health Model of Prevention
Recent activist, policy, and government efforts to engage in campus rape prevention education (RPE), culminating in the 2014 White House Task Force recommendations to combat campus sexual assault, prompt a need to examine the concept of “prevention” in the context of sexual assault on U.S. college campuses and their surrounding community service agencies. This article reviews previous research on effective resistance to sexual assault, showing th…
Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense
An examination of women's self-defense culture and its relationship to feminism. I was once a frightened feminist. So begins Martha McCaughey's odyssey into the dynamic world of women's self- defense, a culture which transforms women involved with it and which has equally profound implications for feminist theory and activism. Unprecedented numbers of American women are learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. Sales of mac…
Violations of Sexual and Information Privacy: Understanding Dataraid in a (Cyber)Rape Culture
Technology-facilitated sexual violence is a violation unique to the digital age that extends the analog-era rape culture, but electronic privacy invasions are often an overlooked part of these violations. This article examines three emblematic cases of information privacy violations that get used, framed, or rationalized in connection with violations of sexual privacy. In showing how aggressive electronic intrusions borrow the well-worn tropes of…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Feminism (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)