Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film / Edition 1

by Tanya Horeck

Overview

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of 'public rape', Horeck looks at how images of rape serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference. Looking at rape in real life as well as in literature and films such as The Accused and Boys Don't Cry, Horek reveals how representations of rape raise vital questions about the relationship between reality and fantasy, and between violence and spectacle

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415288552
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/04/2003
Series:	Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication Series
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tanya Horeck is Lecturer in Communication Studies in the School of Arts and Letters at Anglia Polytechnic University.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION; Part I PRIMAL SCENES; Chapter 1 ORIGIN STORIES; Chapter 2 BODY POLITICS; Part II THE SPECTACLE OF RAPE; Chapter 3 ‘RAPE IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT’; Chapter 4 ‘THEY DID WORSE THAN NOTHING’; Part III REWRITING RAPE; Chapter 5 ‘MORE INTIMATE THAN VIOLENCE’; Chapter 6 RAPE ON TAPE?; Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;