Women, Power, and Rape Culture: The Politics and Policy of Underrepresentation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781440876974)

Focusing on how rape, sexual assault, and harassment relate to underrepresentation of women in public authority, this book provides an insightful exploration of the policy context that impedes women's advancement to positions of power.

The election of Donald Trump precipitated one of the largest outpourings of political protest on a single day in U.S. history with the 2017 March for Women. The emboldened #MeToo and #TimesUp movements reacted not only to the historical injustice of sexual offenses perpetrated upon women, but women's associated underrepresentation in positions of power and public authority.

Women, Power, and Rape Culture examines the principal events, actors, and paradigms in the politics of rape, sexual assault, and harassment since Trump's election. Unlike other studies, it connects these traumatic events to women's underrepresentation in the public sphere. Chapters consider the power of presidential speech, judges, and Congress to create structural barriers to women's representation as well as the stultifying effects of weak college and university responses to sexual violence. Disparities in women's representation in positions of public authority are considered in light of the disproportionate burden imposed on women by a culture that discounts the prevalence of rape and harassment and by the policies that inadequately address them, allowing them to perpetuate.

Author: Bonnie Stabile, Aubrey Leigh Grant
ISBN-10: 1440876975
ISBN-13: 9781440876974
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2023