Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2008
- Category :
Trauma and Violence - Category 2 :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 26838
- ISBN 13 : 9780415211741
- ISBN 10 : 0415211743
Reviews and Endorsements
By analysing conversational data, Anderson and Doherty suggest that the existing social psychological experimental research into rape and rape perception fails to analyse the subtlety and political significance of rape supportive reasoning. Accounting for Rape provides a critical interrogation of the dominant theories and methodologies, focusing on: 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; 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.