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Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy (PDF eBook)


Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy (PDF eBook)

eBook by Jordan, Jan

Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy (PDF eBook)

£39.99

ISBN:
9781000605822
Publication Date:
08 Jul 2022
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Imprint:
Routledge
Format:
eBook
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Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy (PDF eBook)

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In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society. She argues that, in order to understand the global pandemic of sexual violence, we must view rape culture as a consequence of the social divisiveness that emerges from the logic of patriarchy. In advancing this argument, Jordan offers a comprehensive indictment of the patriarchal system while recognising also womenOs efforts to resist its edicts. Jordan critically explores two mechanisms that she argues are central to the maintenance and reproduction of rape culture - silencing and objectification. Both are examined as patriarchal strategies that have been relied on for centuries to control and constrain womenOs lives, silencing their voices and keeping them as NotheredO outsiders in a male-defined world. Women throughout history have sought ways to resist such control and, since the second-wave womenOs movement of the 1970s, this has included multiple initiatives both offline and more recently online. While #MeToo is being hailed by many as evidence that the silencing of womenOs voices about rape has finally been broken, Jordan urges a more critical appraisal given the continued dominance of patriarchal thinking. To end rape culture, Jordan argues, we must end patriarchy.This timely and provocative book, which complements JordanOs Women, Rape and Justice: Unravelling the Rape Conundrum (Routledge, 2022), will be of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and activists seeking to understand and challenge the pervasive rape culture characterising contemporary patriarchal society.

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