Paper Title
Defending Date Rape
Keywords
- clinical psychology
- applied psychology
- date rape
- acquaintance rape
- sexual assault
- rape crisis
- feminism
- radical feminism
- media representation
- rape statistics
- public perception
- rape prevention
- violence against women act
- rape education
- sexual violence
- rape crisis services
- rape myths
- gender politics
- social criticism
- rape research
- campus sexual assault
- victim advocacy
- policy debate
- sexual consent
- rape legislation
- misrepresentation of rape
- media influence
- sexual assault awareness
- gender-based violence
- rape survivor support
- criminal justice
- social welfare
- sexual coercion
- Date Rape
- Sexual Assault
- Rape
- Sexual Violence
- Consent
- Victim Blaming
- Legal Response
- Trauma
- Psychological Impact
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Victim Impact
- Trauma Recovery
- Emotional Healing
- Healing from Sexual Violence
- Legal Defense
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Harassment
- Criminal Justice
- Survivor Empowerment
- Rape Prevention
- Intimate Partner Violence
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Publication Info
Volume: 7 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 122–126
Published On
March, 1992
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Abstract
Date rape has been battered in the media recently. One critic, Berkeley social welfare professor Neil Gilbert, proclaimed that “radical feminists have distorted the definition of rape and created a bogus epidemic”(Hendrix, 1991). His thoughts echo criticisms first raised by journalist Stephanie Gutmann in Playboy magazine (October 1990). Both critics focused their attacks on my national survey of college students (Koss, Gidycz, & Wisniewski, 1987), perhaps because it has been widely disseminated in the popular press to document the scope of acquaintance rape. Their assertions cannot be ignored because they support a clear-cut agenda: to reduce public support for the appropriations directed at rape crisis services and education/prevention as proposed in the Violence Against Women Act.
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