Browsing by Subject "rape"

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Female sexual arousal response to implied sexual violence
(2012) Lessels, Elisabeth; Meston, Cindy
Introduction to The Angela Y. Davis Reader
(Blackwell Publishers, 1998) James, Joy
For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on feminism, anti-racism, political philosophy, and liberation theory. Her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced political and social thought, and contemporary struggles. The Angela Y. Davis reader presents interviews, essays, and excerpts from Davis's most important works, including her memoir, in four parts - Prisons, Repression, and Resistance; Marxism, Anti-Racism, and Feminism; Aesthetics and Culture; and Interviews - Davis examines progressive politics and intellectualism. The extensive introduction by Joy James both provides biographical background and contextualizes the intellectual development of Davis as one of the leading thinkers of our time.
Rape Prevention and Control Act (Statement of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke)
(U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975-01-31) U.S. Government
Texas Undergraduate Law Review Journal at The University of Texas at Austin, Volume III, Issue I
(2014) University of Texas at Austin; Jones, Melissa; Weingarten, Mark; Sackley, Kelly; Claflin, Sam; Epstein, Jori
A World Without Words: Reconceptualizing Aphasia Through the Agency of Rape Survivors in America
(2019-05) Garrett, Marina; Smith, Christen
This study examines the overwhelming silence survivors of rape feel in the United States. Using a feminist activist anthropological framework, I examine the ways rape culture in the United States has caused rape survivors to feel they do not matter, which causes them to lose their ability to speak. The culture of silence that thrives within police departments across the U.S. is the first space of silence rape survivors encounter. As they move forward from their assaults, family members also create spaces of silence. The United States has developed a culture of aphasia around the topic of rape. This cultural aphasia affects survivors and causes them to lose the ability to speak in many aspects of their lives. However, the most common diagnosis for the trauma of rape is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and PTSD has no lens to examine or heal survivors with aphasia. Through the interviews with three survivors that experienced aphasia after rape, and my own experience with this silence, this thesis explores rape, silence and trauma through the lens of the anthropology of violence and trauma with the hope that theorists will develop further studies to develop a more holistic healing approach for rape survivors.
YES! An Enthusiastic Analysis of the Creation of a Consent Culture at The University of Texas at Austin
(2020-05) Goldstein, Mia
This thesis seeks to ascertain what the culture surrounding consent looks like at the University of Texas at Austin. To get an understanding, I designed a quantitative and qualitative study that measured the degree to which consent culture exists on campus through the lenses of campus climate, the level of students’ consent awareness, and their behaviors regarding consent. The metric, the “Campus Consent Culture Scale,” measured students’ beliefs, attitudes, perceptions, and actions with regards to consent and sexual assault, using Likert agreement and frequency scales. Background knowledge and empirical evidence was collected through interviews with relevant subjects. Furthermore, this thesis analyzes the work that has already been done by campus programming, initiatives, and student organizations that are working to end interpersonal violence towards and create a culture that values consent. This thesis found evidence of a consent culture’s infancy and offers recommendations for strategies that will continue to foster its growth and improve the campus climate at the University of Texas at Austin.