A01=Aubrey Leigh Grant
A01=Bonnie Stabile
Academic Libraries
Author_Aubrey Leigh Grant
Author_Bonnie Stabile
Bully Pulpit
Campus Sexual Assault
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Congressional Accountability Act
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Judicial Conduct
Public Policy
Rape Culture
Sexual Harassment
Title IX
Women's Representation
Women's Studies
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- ISBN 9781440876974
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on how rape, sexual assault, and harassment relate to underrepresentation of women in public authority, this book provides an insightful exploration of the policy context that impedes women's advancement to positions of power.
The election of Donald Trump precipitated one of the largest outpourings of political protest on a single day in U.S. history with the 2017 March for Women. The emboldened #MeToo and #TimesUp movements reacted not only to the historical injustice of sexual offenses perpetrated upon women but also to women's associated underrepresentation in positions of power and public authority.
Women, Power, and Rape Culture examines the principal events, actors, and paradigms in the politics of rape, sexual assault, and harassment since Trump's election. Unlike other studies, it connects these traumatic events to women's underrepresentation in the public sphere. Chapters consider the power of presidential speech, judges, and Congress to create structural barriers to women's representation as well as the stultifying effects of weak college and university responses to sexual violence. Disparities in women's representation in positions of public authority are considered in light of the disproportionate burden imposed on women by a culture that discounts the prevalence of rape and harassment and by the policies that inadequately address them, allowing them to perpetuate.
Bonnie Stabile is associate professor and associate dean of student and academic affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, USA.
Aubrey Leigh Grant is a doctoral candidate at George Mason University, USA.
