Ebook {Epub PDF} Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media by Nickie D. Phillips

In Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media, Nickie D. Phillips takes a different approach by interrogating rape culture through a cultural criminological framework. Phillips is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, and she opens this text by contending “that. Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence is collectively processed, mediated, negotiated, and contested by exploring public reactions to high-profile incidents and rape narratives in popular culture. The concept of rape culture was initially embraced in popular media – mass media, social media, and popular culture – and contributed to a social understanding of sexual violence that . Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular MediaBeyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media, by PhillipsNickie www.doorway.ru, MD: Rowman Littlefield, pp. $ cloth.

In Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media, Nickie D. Phillips takes a different approach by interrogating rape culture through a cultural criminological framework. Phillips is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, and she opens this text by contending "that the. Beyond Blurred Lines reads like it is the author's sociology thesis printed as a book, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Each chapter approaches a specific part of rape culture (such as gaming, comics, and college campuses) by clearly stating the what the chapter will cover in detail, goes on to detail a narrative of events (not just including major media sources like the New York Times. Beyond Blurred Lines. Paperback Edition Fall Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media. By Nickie D. Phillips. Reviews: Phillips, an associate sociology and criminal justice professor at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, devotes this thoughtful study to the concept of rape culture, showing how it has reshaped public debate.

Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence is collectively processed, mediated, negotiated, and contested by exploring public reaction. From its origins in academic discourse in the s to our collective imagination today, the concept of "rape culture" has resonated in a variety of spheres, including television, gaming, comic book culture, and college campuses. In Beyond Blurred Lines Nickie Phillips delivers an uncompromising, critical and long-overdue analysis of the concept and manifestations of rape culture. From news coverage of sexual violence, to its representations in popular culture, to public responses in social media, to online harassment, and sexual assault on college campuses, Phillips traces the contested history and contemporary debates regarding rape culture's nature and existence, foremost in the United States. activists. Now, as Nickie Phillips shows in her book Beyond Blurred Lines: Rape Culture in Popular Media, we are all in the game—dictating and deciding what sexual violence is and how we, as a culture, should respond. Using a cultural criminological framework, Nickie Phillips provides a contemporary overview of the term “rape.