Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - William Kennedy Smith, Against Our Will, Second-Wave Feminism
11 Apr 2013
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Historical and cultural context: film: birth of a nation (1915) Projansky notes in watching rape that this prescribed specific narrational strategies for rape within films which remain part of our visual vocabulary: late 1960s and early 1970s (issues of rape and sexual violence) Sometimes these films also are linked to anti racist narratives(to kill a mockingbird) Rape revenge narratives more common (i spit on your grave (1978)) Rape was largely understood as a kind of property crime. Certain types of women were deemed unrapeable. Rape was defined very narrowly in terms of forceable vaginal penetration. Violence in the 1980s and 1990s: legislation and rape. Changes in canadian rape law (1983: redefinition of rape to sexual assault (three levels of seriousness) Sexual assault; sexual assault with a weapon; aggravated sexual assault: rape culture. Increasing understanding of a pervasive rape culture : big dan rape case 1984.
