Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-9-2017
Publication Title
Violence Against Women
Abstract
A trend in scholarship characterizes the anti-rape movement as starting out with radical goals and achieving success in reforming rape law, but then declining because of cooptation by the state. This article challenges this narrative of decline in light of the history of the anti-rape movement and current anti-rape activism across the country. By focusing their critique on criminal justice and therapeutic approaches to sexual violence, and failing to account for the diversity of the anti-rape movement, advocates for narratives of decline ignore parts of the movement that challenge the state itself and those that seek broader cultural and community-based changes to eradicate sexual violence.
Keywords
Anti-rape movement narratives, sexual violence, rape law reform
DOI
doi.org/10.1177/1077801216689164
Rights
Licensed to Smith College and distributed CC-BY under the Smith College Faculty Open Access Policy
Recommended Citation
Baker, Carrie N. and Bevaqua, Maria R., "Challenging Narratives of Decline of the Anti-rape Movement" (2017). Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/swg_facpubs/9
Comments
Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.
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