2017/03/09 by Carrie N. Baker, Maria Bevacqua · 29 citations
Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Criminology #Diversity (politics) #Economic Justice #Gender studies #Gender, Security, and Conflict #Law #Movement (music) #Narrative #Political economy #Political science #Scholarship #Sex work and related issues #Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies #Sexual violence #Sociology #State (computer science)
paper · open access · doi:10.1177/1077801216689164
published in Violence Against Women 24(3), 350-376 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2017/03/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
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.