psychology, feminism, and the discourse analysis
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Anderson, Irina
- Creator
- Doherty, Kathy
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2008 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksueel geweld, verkrachtingen, slachtoffers, daders, feminisme, seksuele voorkeur, methoden van onderzoek
- Description
- The authors look at existing psychological experimental research on rape, 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. 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