Tuesday, October 10, 2017

#3: Three Academic Sources

  1.  American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by Lisa Wade. This source will help me refine my topic because I am going to focus on how rape culture thrives on college campuses, and the "hookup culture" might provide some good information as to why it still exists. The author talks about sexual violence in the book as well, which is a big part of rape culture.
  2. Perception of Rape Culture on a College Campus: A Look at Social Media Posts by Ashley Giraldi and Elizabeth Monk-Turner. This source will help me because it analyzes something as simple as a post on social media and they can affect someone's perception of rape culture on campuses, and analyze real posts and viewer's reactions online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539516302333
  3.  "The Greek System: How Gender Inequality and Class Privilege Perpetuate Rape Culture" by Kristen N. Jozkowski and Jacquelyn D. Wiersma-Mosley. This source will help me because it introduces the social and power dynamic of Greek life on college campuses. I am finding that fraternities play a big role in rape culture. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fare.12229/full

1 comment:

  1. I have American Hookup by Wade and find it very interesting. Though it is journalism and interested in telling a story, it dwells at length on issues and is especially insightful on the "talking taboo" around hookups -- where the first rule, as in "fight club," is that you do not about hookups... in fact, you don't talk before, during, or after them. And that lack of communication is definitely a contributor to confusion regarding consent.

    I think a very interesting paper could be written on this topic of the talking taboo, which seems an interesting frame for looking at a number of well documented cases, from "the mattress girl" (as shown even in the re-enactment of the rape that Sulkowicz put on video) to a case involving a quarterback (who is not found guilty) discussed at length by Jon Krakauer in Missoula, where the lack of verbal communication between the man and woman clearly contributed to confusion regarding consent.

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