The injustices of rape how activists responded to sexual violence, 1950-1980
"According to Jacquet, anti-rape efforts in the postwar period often built upon one another and were intersectional, even if organizers and reformers did not always know it; she argues that without the struggle produced from these sometimes dueling efforts, the kinds of changes that emerged by...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
[2019], 2019
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| Series: | Gender and American culture
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| Collection: | JSTOR Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "According to Jacquet, anti-rape efforts in the postwar period often built upon one another and were intersectional, even if organizers and reformers did not always know it; she argues that without the struggle produced from these sometimes dueling efforts, the kinds of changes that emerged by the 1980s and 1990s would not have been possible. Along the way, Jacquet also uses the activists' efforts to reveal the difficulty of challenging ingrained racist and sexist beliefs and practices, the unevenness of reform, and the necessity of cross-collaboration"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1469653885 9781469653884 |