Title

Challenging Narratives of Anti-Rape Movement’s Decline

Authors

Carrie N. Baker, Smith College
Maria Bevacqua, Minnesota State University, MankatoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-9-2017

Abstract

A recent trend in scholarship characterizes the anti-rape movement as founded with radical goals and achieving success at reforming rape laws, but then declining because of co-optation by the state. This article challenges narratives of decline in light of the history of the anti-rape movement and current anti-rape activism. By focusing their critique on criminal justice and therapeutic approaches to sexual violence, and failing to account for the diversity of the anti-rape movement, advocates for narratives of decline ignore parts of the movement that challenge the state and other parts that use broader cultural and community-based strategies to end rape.

Department

Gender and Women's Studies

Print ISSN

1077-8012

Publication Title

Violence Against Women

Recommended Citation

Baker, C. N. & Bevacqua, M. (2017). Challenge Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement's Decline. Violence Against Women, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216689164

DOI

10.1177/1077801216689164

Link to Publisher Version (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216689164

Publisher's Copyright and Source

Copyright © 2017. Article published by SAGE in Violence Against Women, first published online on March 9, 2017. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216689164