Overview
- Provides the first history of women speaking out against rape from the 1970s to today
- Examines a range of key texts, from the Victim Impact Statement of Emily Doe to personal accounts of the #MeToo movement
- Provides a critical bibliography of the genre of rape memoirs, drawing on over 50 books
- Analyses the strengths and limitations of speaking out as a political practice
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Speaking Out, Building a Genre
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The Politics of Speaking Out
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About this book
This is the first critical study of feminist practices of ‘speaking out’ in response to rape. This book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women’s personal narratives of sexual violence. The political mobilisation of these narratives has been an incredibly successful strategy, but one with unresolved ethical questions and political limitations. The book explores both the successes and the unresolved questions through feminist archival materials, published narratives of sexual violence, and mass media and internet sources. It argues that that a rethinking of the role and place of women’s stories and the politics of speaking out is vital for a rethinking of feminist politics around sexual violence and key to fresh approaches to combating this violence.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tanya Serisier is Lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She writes and publishes on the cultural politics of sexuality and sexual violence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Speaking Out
Book Subtitle: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics
Authors: Tanya Serisier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98669-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40425-3Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98669-2Published: 19 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 259
Topics: Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Crime and Society, Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Crime and the Media, Violence and Crime