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antirape activism
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black feminism
black women and rape
campaign against capital punishment
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Coker v. Georgia
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false rape allegations
feminism
feminist antirape movement
feminist rape law reform
Giles-Johnson
Groveland Four
interracial rape
Joan Little
John Henry Wigmore
Michigan Women's Task Force on Rape
modern antiviolence movement
NAACP LDF
psychiatry and rape
rape and gender justice
rape and racial justice
rape and the death penalty
rape crisis center
rape law
rape shield laws
second wave feminism
sexual violence
Susan Brownmiller
women against rape
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- ISBN 9781469653860
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 188 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From 1950 to 1980, activists in the black freedom and women's liberation movements mounted significant campaigns in response to the injustices of rape. These activists challenged the dominant legal and social discourses of the day and redefined the political agenda on sexual violence for over three decades. How activists framed sexual violence--as either racial injustice, gender injustice, or both--was based in their respective frameworks of oppression. The dominant discourse of the black freedom movement constructed rape primarily as the product of racism and white supremacy, whereas the dominant discourse of women's liberation constructed rape as the result of sexism and male supremacy. In The Injustices of Rape, Catherine O. Jacquet is the first to examine these two movement responses together, explaining when and why they were in conflict, when and why they converged, and how activists both upheld and challenged them. Throughout, she uses the history of antirape activism to reveal the difficulty of challenging deeply ingrained racist and sexist ideologies, the unevenness of reform, and the necessity of an intersectional analysis to combat social injustice.
Catherine O. Jacquet is assistant professor of history and women's and gender studies at Louisiana State University.
