SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: National Institutes Of Health, Act Up, Scapegoating
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Sexual violence - recent activism among young adults. Outline the problem of sexual violence and defining its causes. Both miriam gleckman-krut and nicole bedera, nyt and not rape epidemic . Latoya peterson describe the difficulty those who experience sexual coercion and violence have in articulating their experience in ways that meets cultural understanding (among parents, teachers, law enforcement) of behavior that is blameworthy. = the terms rape culture and victim blaming. Rape was something we could identify, an act with a strict definition and two distinct scenarios. Not rape was all those other little things that we experienced everyday and struggled to learn how to deal with those situations. Who should have the right to define rape: survivors who have experienced sexual violence or those who are accused of perpetrating it? . What they did was make it easier for victims to come forward. Peterson quotes the defense counsel describing the victim of alleged rape:
