In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential treatment of rape has exacerbated the ghettoizing of sexual violence along gendered lines. Both a critical analysis and a call to action, Framing the Rape Victim shows that rape is not a special interest issue that pertains just to women but a pervasive one that affects our society as a whole.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Framing the Victim
2. Rape and Victimology in Feminist Theory
3. "Birth Rape": Laboring Women, Coaching Men, and Natural Childbirth in the Hospital Setting
4. Prison Rape, Masculinity, and the Missed Alliances of Hollywood Cinema
5. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Diasporic Women's Fiction
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index