Speaking Out Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics

Speaking Out Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics / by Tanya Serisier.

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 narrati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Serisier, Tanya (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Critical criminology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Sociology.
Culture.
Mass media and crime.
Violence.
Crime.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Speaking Out, Building a Genre
  • 1. Introduction: Break the Silence, End the Violence: The Political Promise of Personal Narratives
  • 2. Speaking Out Beyond Feminism: Public Survivors and Rape Narratives
  • 3. ‘A New Literature of Rape’: Storytelling, Genre and Subjectivity
  • 4. Speaking Truth to Law’s Power: Legal Judgements and the ‘Powerful Letter’ of Emily Doe
  • 5. #YesAllWomen and Heroic ‘Silence Breakers’: Online Speech, Collective Stories and the Politics of Belief
  • Part II.The Politics of Speaking Out
  • 6. Whose Business is Speaking Out? The Bell Debate, Indigenous Stories and the Construction of White Feminist Expertise
  • 7. Turning Rape into Fiction? Judgement, Genre and the Politics of Belief
  • 8. That Which Must Be Broken: Silence and the Politics of Listening
  • 9. Conclusion; Break the Silence, End the Violence? A Politics of Narrative.

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