Confronting Rape
The Feminist Anti-Rape Movement and the State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Lee (0000-0002-6843-0280), Sue Lees, Nancy Matthews, Nancy L Matthews |
| Year | 1995 |
| Issue | 51 |
| Pages | 125 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Confronting rape: The Feminist Anti-Rape Movement and the State, Nancy A Matthews, 1994 |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1395512 |
| OpenAlex | W1966296101 |
| Language | EN |
This work documents two decades of anti-rape activism in the USA. From grass-roots efforts to the institutionalization of state-funded rape crisis centres, the movement has changed public thinking about sexual assault significantly. Activists in rape crisis centres across the US created a feminist success story, although not always as they would choose. The text explores how the State has reshaped rape crisis work by supporting the therapeutic aspects of the anti-rape movement's agenda, and pushing feminist rape centres toward conventional frameworks of social service provision, while submerging the feminist political agenda of transforming gender relations and preventing rape. Through a comparative history of six organizations in Los Angeles, Nancy Matthews explores the complexities within a movement that included radicals, moderates, women of colour, lesbians - all working with varying frameworks. Originally critical of the State's handling of rape and distrustful of co-operation, most rape crisis centres eventually came to rely on state funding for organizational survival
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Feminism · Feminist movement · Human sexuality · Movement (music) · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |