Rape Culture on Campus

By (author) Meredith Minister

Publication date:

15 September 2018

Length of book:

184 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

240x161mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498565141

Rape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I: Untying the Knot of Rape Culture
Chapter 1: Purity Culture
Chapter 2: Violence and Policing
Section II: Rape on Campus
Chapter 3: Exploring Institutional Structures
Chapter 4: Assumptions of Autonomy in Co-Curricular Responses to Sexual Violence
Section III: Sexual Violence and the Classroom
Chapter 5: De-individualizing Sexual Violence in the Classroom: Trauma and the Trigger Warning Debates
Chapter 6: Transforming Rape Culture through the Classroom
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author

While speaking directly into an undergraduate university context, this book should be required reading for anyone involved in education at any level. . . . Minister’s riveting, brilliant presentation is simultaneously sobering and inspiring; sobering because she intrepidly and incisively diagnoses what ails us as a society (of which we and our institutions are inescapably a part) but also inspiring because she firmly believes in and models the ways that classrooms, as the “soft flesh” of the university, can transform society. Honestly, between her analysis and her concrete, achievable strategies related to how we shape our classes in terms of both content and form, she equips us all to participate immediately and efficaciously in transformative education, no matter our starting point. She has left us with no excuse for timidity or failure. For that we owe her deep gratitude. This book isn’t just another interesting armchair read on pedagogical theory. Rather, it will make you change your syllabus and specific assignments for your courses right away.