Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism

by Jodi Gold (Editor), Susan Villari (Editor), Andrea Dworkin (Foreword by), John Stoltenberg (Foreword by), Andrea Dworkin (Contribution by)

Overview

Armed with three decades of feminism, men and women are coming to college with different ideas and expectations about sexual freedom and violence than did their parents. Since the early 1980's, a student movement has emerged from the belief that sexual violence is neither inherent nor inevitable. Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism chronicles the move to end to all forms of sexual violence and to mold a new sexual paradigm where explicitly consensual sex and sexual autonomy are the norm. Based on ten years of collaborative research and national organizing, Gold and Villari have compiled the writings of leading student activists and young scholars wrestling with complex issues of power inequities, free speech, and societal constructions of gender and sexuality in accessible and mainstream dialogues. Authors also examine the generationally specific style of student activism which emphasizes peer education and institutional collaboration. Just Sex_the first ever gathering of primary documents including university policies, personal testimonies, position papers and scholarly essays_offers a glimpse of the 'working papers' of a student movement which has altered the sexual landscape of our campuses and communities forever. This valuable volume will be of interest to student activists, administrators, and anyone interested in ending violence on and off of campus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847693337
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/12/2000
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Susan Villari, MPH, is director of health education at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1989, she has organized student educators and activists including STAAR, Students Together Against Acquaintance Rape which hosted the 1st National Student Conference on Campus Sexual Violence, of which Jodi Gold was the student coordinator. Jodi Gold has spoken at universities and conferences across the continent on student activism and campus sexual violence. She is currently a medical student at the University of Tennessee. Susan and Jodi are also founding members of SpeakOut: The North American Student Coalition Against Sexual Violence.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xi
	Preface. They Never Burned Their Bras	xvii
	Acknowledgments	xxv
	Introduction. The New Sexual Revolution	1
Part I	Putting A Face to the Name: From Rape Survivor to Activist
1.	Survivor-Activists in the Movement against Sexual Violence	17
2.	The Perfect Rape Victim	30
3.	Male-on-Male Rape	39
4.	Creating a Sacred Space of Our Own	47
5.	Breaking the Silence, Making Laughter: Testimony of an Asian-American Sister	59
Part II	The Issues That Divide and Conquer: Free Speech, Pornography, and A "Kinder, Gentler Feminism"
6.	The Writing on the Stall: Free Speech, Equal Rights, and Women's Graffiti	77
7.	Illusions of Postfeminism: "Victim Feminists." "Welfare Mothers," and the Race for Heterosexuality	91
8.	Crime without Punishment: Pornography in a Rape Culture	105
Part III	Rewriting The Rules
9.	Asking for Consent is Sexy	123
10.	Demands from the Women of Antioch	126
11.	The Antirape Rules	135
Part IV	Revolutionary Strategies
12.	Peer Education: Student Activism of the Nineties	145
13.	Kicking into Consciousness through Self-Defense Training: Getting Physical in Both Theory and Practice	157
14.	Because Violence is a Weapon of Oppression, Antirape Must Mean Antioppression	167
15.	Men-Only Spaces as Effective Sites for Education and Transformation in the Battle to End Sexual Assault	181
Part V	Institutional Change
16.	Rape and the Media: Putting a Face on Rape	191
17.	Training Camp: Lessons in Masculinity	197
18.	Sexual Violence: The Legal Front	211
	Afterword: Top Ten Ways the Campus Movement against Sexual Violence Is Misunderstood	223
	Notes	245
Appendix 1	Resources	265
Appendix 2	Additional Contributors	269
Appendix 3	SpeakOut: The North American Student Coalition Against Sexual Violence	271
Appendix 4	Creating Campuses Intolerant of Rape	273
Appendix 5	The Antioch College Sexual Offense Policy	292
Appendix 6	Senate Judiciary Testimony Provided by Activist on Violence against Women Act	294
Appendix 7	The Student Right-to-Know Act and the Campus Security Act of 1990	298
Appendix 8	Campus Sexual Assault Victim's Bill of Rights (1992)	300
	Selected Bibliography	303
	Index	309
	Anthology Contributors	319

Editorial Reviews

This book represents the work and thought of a series of college generations for whom stopping rape has the same import that ending legal race-based segregation and stopping the Vietnam War had on college campuses in the sixties. .. . Just Sex goes right to the heart of what differentiates sex from rape, what differentiates a human engaging in sex from an object used for sexual release; what makes sex intimate instead of annihilating. This is a book my generation of feminists (who were, before that, sexual liberationists) could not have imagined, because this current generation of assault-and-rape prevention advocates are engaged in the process of making both sex and intimacy a whole-body, whole-mind experience.

Andrea Dworkin

Just Sex is the long overdue counterweight to post-feminism invective, an archive for the as yet unwritten history of the feminism movement to end sexual violence. Just Sex offers a much-needed counter-history to reports of the death of feminism. These essays proclaim that feminist activism is very much alive. Just Sex is an exceptionally useful student handbook, and a tool for making 'just sex' possible, on college campuses and in the world beyond them.

The Women's Review Of Books - Lisa Marcus