Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject
of rape and sexual violence. The authors scrutinize existing social
psychological experimental research on rape, in particular rape
perception research, which, they argue, fails to analyse the
subtlety and political significance of rape supportive reasoning
and the forms that it takes, thus also underestimating the extent
of rape supportive reasoning. The authors provide a critical
interrogation of dominant theories and methodologies, and
thought-provoking analyses of conversational data, exploring
everyday accounting practices in relation to reports of both female
and male rape. They synthesize discursive psychology and a feminist
standpoint to explore precisely how rape and rape victimhood are
defined in ways that reflect the social, political and cultural
conditions of society.
They show how the gender and sexual orientation of alleged
victims and perpetrators is crucial to social participants when
making sense of a rape report and in apportioning blame and
sympathy. They also examine how arguments that are critical of
alleged victims are built in ways that are 'face saving' for the
participants in the conversations, and how victim-blaming arguments
are presented as 'common sense'. Crucial to this is the way in
which rape supportive talk is underpinned by a range of deeply
ingrained cultural sense-making resources that construct and
legitimate hegemonic forms of heterosexual identities and gender
relations and neo-liberal notions of ideal citizenship. Finally,
the authors demonstrate the potential of the application for their
approach in both professional and academic contexts to promote
attitude change.
Thebook will be of great interest to those studying social and
clinical psychology, cultural studies, sociology, women's studies
and communication studies.
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