Disrupting Rape Culture, livre ebook

The first text to interrogate the spatial politics of rape culture, which advances a philosophy of contestation, despite the fact that rape culture continues to thrive and proliferate in the everyday, especially in the current political climate;

Challenges current thinking about gender, sexuality and public space and represents an important intervention in these debates by proposing a new way of conceptualising and acting against the current rise in rape culture;

Interdisciplinary in scope covering gender-based violence and related areas across sociology and criminology.

Pussy grabbing; hot mommas; topless protest; nasty women. Whether hypersexualised, desexualised, venerated or maligned, women’s bodies in public space continue to be framed as a problem. A problem that is discursively ‘solved’ by the continued proliferation of rape culture in everyday life.

Indeed, despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and sexism in contemporary debates, gendered violence continues to be normalised.

Using case studies from the US and UK – the de/sexualised pregnancy, the troublesome naked protest, the errant BDSM player – Fanghanel interrogates how the female body is figured through, and revolts against, gendered violence.

Rape culture currently thrives. This book demonstrates how it happens, the politics that are mobilised to sustain it, and how we might act to contest it.

Causing Trouble;

Disruptive Pregnancy;

Disruptive Protests;

Disruptive Play;

Disruptive Bodies.