Tanya Horeck

Public Rape (eBook, ePUB)

Representing Violation in Fiction and Film

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of 'public rape', Horeck looks at how images of rape serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference. Looking at rape in real life as well as in literature and films such as The Accused and Boys Don't Cry, Horek reveals how representations of rape raise vital questions about the relationship between reality and fantasy, and between violence and spectacle

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135143411
• Artikelnr.: 38267200

Autorenporträt

Tanya Horeck is Lecturer in Communication Studies in the School of Arts and Letters at Anglia Polytechnic University.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Part I PRIMAL SCENES
Chapter 1 ORIGIN STORIES
Chapter 2 BODY POLITICS
Part II THE SPECTACLE OF RAPE
Chapter 3 'RAPE IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT'
Chapter 4 'THEY DID WORSE THAN NOTHING'
Part III REWRITING RAPE
Chapter 5 'MORE INTIMATE THAN VIOLENCE'
Chapter 6 RAPE ON TAPE?
Notes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX