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| View Larger Image | Transforming a Rape Culture
by Emilie Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher, Martha Roth
| | List Price: | $18.95 | | Price: | $12.89 | | You Save: | $6.06 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 44779 | | Studio: | Milkweed Editions | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 400 | | Publication Date: | February 08, 2005 | | Publisher: | Milkweed Editions |
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Product Description
Originally published in 1993, this pioneering anthology is a powerful polemic for fundamental cultural change: the transformation of basic attitudes about power, gender, race, and sexuality. This edition adds new pieces on Internet pornography, the role of sports in sexual violence, and rape as a calculated instrument of war. The diverse contributors, which include bell hooks, Andrea Dworkin, Michael Messner, Yvette Flores, and Ntozake Shange, are activists, opinion leaders, theologians, policymakers, educators, and authors of both genders who tackle such hot-button issues as pornography and the intersection of race and rape.
The book's statistics have been thoroughly updated, as have essays about sexual violence in K-12 schools and in the church. New pieces from within America's immigrant communities depict struggles with domestic violence, sexual harassment, and community stigmas against reporting rape. This violence, not limited to one race, creed, or nationality, has its roots in cultural biases that are still much in need of change. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 7 reviews)
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The Misandrist Feminists of America 
The MF's once again have used a real issue (rape) as a means to drive a wedge between the sexes and pretend as if the source of all evil resides in one gender. I can't take seriously any research, conclusions, statistics, or anything else that derives from the minds and lips of misandrists like Dworkin--a person who believes that sexual thrusting on the part of a man should be discontinued. Who are you kidding? The human beings five-starring this book are complicit in this crime of opportunity. The real agenda on all MF fronts is to permanently divide women from men by any and all means necessary, the primary means being fear and propaganda. And I can hear all the screeching now: HE IS DEFENDING MEN WHO RAPE WOMEN! Not at all. I'm condemning MFs who use rape to scare women into thinking that every man they meet is a potential rapist or would-be rapist. I also resent the MF inability to recognize that women engage in sexual gamesmanship, seduction, and sexual domination behavior.
January 25, 2006 | |
More Radical Feminism 
This book is like so many earlier feminist-oriented gender/rape books, I found it hard to dissect the information from the familiar propaganda.
I don't need to be convinced that the gender bias in our culture adds to the instances of rape. This has been established time and time again.
How about a fresh way of describing and dealing with this?
September 12, 2005 | |
Highly Recomend 
Transforming a Rape Culture, by Milkweed Editions is a book that has input from thirty-seven active feminists; twenty-five women and twelve men, who all play different roles in life. Their occupations range from book and article writers, to psychologists, speakers, teachers, parents, and more. Having many authors, instead of just one, gives this book an advantage over one author's opinion. It was definitely written to spark an emotion in everybody to make change. The book's topic effects and influences everybody in some way in life to make a change, even if it's just within themselves. It succeeded in doing so. The book analyzes the factors in our culture, which promote and support not only rape, but also sexual assault, and harassment. It also presents ideas and methods to end it. All the sections throughout this book are linked nicely together giving it a strong analytical flow from all the authors - all seeking nothing less than a fundamental culture change with a method achieve it through the change of power, gender, race, and religion.
January 02, 2003 | |
One of the most important books you will ever read 
This is a compilation of essays written by many prominent (female and male) feminist activists against sexual violence. I was inspired by all of the essays. A few of them were presented in a way that I did not particularly agree with, but even then I still agreed with the essence of what they were saying (and found it extremely important and eye opening). If you are a survivor of sexual abuse, rape, any kind of sexual violence (we all have experienced some aspect of the sexual violence that pervades our culture), or you care about ending sexual violence then this book will help. Transforming a Rape Culture can help teach young women that they are worth being protected from sexual violence. This book is original and truly ground breaking. These writers are saying extremely important things that have often been overlooked; they are opening our eyes to our entire society, and they have real solutions. The message of these authors speak to both men and women, but it is also intended to help men see the importance of these issues that have previously been considered only part of women's agenda. The point is clearly made by this book that the most important aspect of the women's movement has not yet been achieved, but it is possible to achieve if it is given the priority that it deserves. I believe that it is possible for the day to arrive that acts of sexual violence will be less prevalent, and people will talk openly about it without shame or fear.
November 15, 2002 | |
Brilliant
This is one of the most brilliant anthologies I have ever read. Each of the essays contributes to the overall point, which is that we live in a culture where sexual violence is a terrifying companion to too many women and children.
February 29, 2000 | |
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