Constructing rape: Feminism, change, and women's everyday understandings of sexual assault
Constructing rape: Feminism, change, and women's everyday understandings of sexual assault
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DOI：
10.1080/027321701300035466
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发表时间：
2001-04-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
Chasteen, AL
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作者：
Chasteen, AL
在过去的30年里，强奸的文化和法律意义发生了巨大的变化，因为女权主义运动挑战了性暴力的传统定义，并提供了对强奸含义的另一种解释。强奸成为一个社会问题，引起了大众和学术界对这一问题的越来越多的关注。尽管关于性暴力的研究和理论越来越多，但很少有人调查女性对强奸的日常结构以及这种结构受女权运动影响的程度。本文使用建构主义框架来考察不同样本女性对强奸的日常理解。通过开放式调查工具收集的数据被分析，以揭示不同年龄、种族和个人历史的妇女定义和解释强奸现象的方式既有有趣的相似之处，也有显著的差异。通过研究这些数据，我们考察了女性主义对强奸的重建在多大程度上影响了女性的日常假设，并探索了女性之间的差异在对强奸的看法中所起的作用。本文提出的研究结果对社会问题理论、女权主义话语以及强奸研究在应用环境中的应用具有重要意义。
The cultural and legal meaning of rape has changed dramatically over the past 30 years as the feminist movement has challenged traditional constructions of sexual violence and offered an alternative construction of the meaning of rape. The transformation of rape into a social problem has brought increased attention to the subject in both popular and academic realms. Despite the growing body of research and theory on sexual violence, little inquiry exists into women's everyday constructions of rape and the degree to which such constructions have been influenced by the feminist movement This article uses a constructionist framework to examine the everyday understandings of rape held by a diverse sample of women. Data gathered through an open-ended survey instrument were analyzed to reveal both interesting similarities and significant differences in the ways women of different ages, races, and personal histories define and interpret the phenomenon of rape. By examining these data, the extent to which the feminist reconstruction of rape has influenced women's everyday assumptions is examined, and the role of differences among women in perceptions of rape is explored. The findings presented in this article have implications for theories of social problems, for feminist discourse, and for the application of research on rape in applied settings.