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Rape Culture on Campus

Meredith Minister

Rape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 183 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4985-6514-1 • Hardback • September 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-6516-5 • Paperback • May 2019 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
978-1-4985-6515-8 • eBook • September 2018 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
Subjects: Education / Violence & Harassment, Education / Counseling / Crisis Management, Education / Higher, Religion / Education, Education / Administration / Higher
Meredith Minister is assistant professor of religion at Shenandoah University
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I: Untying the Knot of Rape Culture
Chapter 1: Purity Culture
Chapter 2: Violence and Policing
Section II: Rape on Campus
Chapter 3: Exploring Institutional Structures
Chapter 4: Assumptions of Autonomy in Co-Curricular Responses to Sexual Violence
Section III: Sexual Violence and the Classroom
Chapter 5: De-individualizing Sexual Violence in the Classroom: Trauma and the Trigger Warning Debates
Chapter 6: Transforming Rape Culture through the Classroom
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author

While speaking directly into an undergraduate university context, this book should be required reading for anyone involved in education at any level. . . . Minister’s riveting, brilliant presentation is simultaneously sobering and inspiring; sobering because she intrepidly and incisively diagnoses what ails us as a society (of which we and our institutions are inescapably a part) but also inspiring because she firmly believes in and models the ways that classrooms, as the “soft flesh” of the university, can transform society. Honestly, between her analysis and her concrete, achievable strategies related to how we shape our classes in terms of both content and form, she equips us all to participate immediately and efficaciously in transformative education, no matter our starting point. She has left us with no excuse for timidity or failure. For that we owe her deep gratitude. This book isn’t just another interesting armchair read on pedagogical theory. Rather, it will make you change your syllabus and specific assignments for your courses right away.


— The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching


For those of us exhausted by the ineffectual and insincere efforts to contain the problem of sexual assault on our college and university campuses, Meredith Minister’s Rape Culture on Campus is a welcome reprieve. Minister’s book is written for an audience of academics, in our native language (that of Bourdieu, Edelman, and Ahmed), but recognizes this audience as one deeply in need of both analytical and pedagogical practices that resist rape culture. To this end, Minister deploys the work of feminist, womanist, queer, crip theorists to re-frame the issue, one that is all too often reduced to compensatory damages. Using her background in Religious and Theological studies, Minister effectively situates the problem as an outgrowth of the cultures of purity and law enforcement that remain ignored. Coercion, sexism, and religion, she argues, maintain the culture of violence that animates rape culture on campus. Beyond her astute assessment of the problem, Minister provides her readers with concrete approaches to institutional policies and pedagogical practices that offer a vision of higher education that can not only prevent, but resist the foundational and practical entrenchment of rape culture. For anyone concerned about their students, survivors of sexual assault, and the integrity of institutions of higher education, Rape Culture on Campus is essential reading material.
— Sara Moslener, Central Michigan University


Rape Culture on Campus

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Hardback
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Summary
Summary
  • Rape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 183 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
    978-1-4985-6514-1 • Hardback • September 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
    978-1-4985-6516-5 • Paperback • May 2019 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
    978-1-4985-6515-8 • eBook • September 2018 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
    Subjects: Education / Violence & Harassment, Education / Counseling / Crisis Management, Education / Higher, Religion / Education, Education / Administration / Higher
Author
Author
  • Meredith Minister is assistant professor of religion at Shenandoah University
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    Section I: Untying the Knot of Rape Culture
    Chapter 1: Purity Culture
    Chapter 2: Violence and Policing
    Section II: Rape on Campus
    Chapter 3: Exploring Institutional Structures
    Chapter 4: Assumptions of Autonomy in Co-Curricular Responses to Sexual Violence
    Section III: Sexual Violence and the Classroom
    Chapter 5: De-individualizing Sexual Violence in the Classroom: Trauma and the Trigger Warning Debates
    Chapter 6: Transforming Rape Culture through the Classroom
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    About the author
Reviews
Reviews
  • While speaking directly into an undergraduate university context, this book should be required reading for anyone involved in education at any level. . . . Minister’s riveting, brilliant presentation is simultaneously sobering and inspiring; sobering because she intrepidly and incisively diagnoses what ails us as a society (of which we and our institutions are inescapably a part) but also inspiring because she firmly believes in and models the ways that classrooms, as the “soft flesh” of the university, can transform society. Honestly, between her analysis and her concrete, achievable strategies related to how we shape our classes in terms of both content and form, she equips us all to participate immediately and efficaciously in transformative education, no matter our starting point. She has left us with no excuse for timidity or failure. For that we owe her deep gratitude. This book isn’t just another interesting armchair read on pedagogical theory. Rather, it will make you change your syllabus and specific assignments for your courses right away.


    — The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching


    For those of us exhausted by the ineffectual and insincere efforts to contain the problem of sexual assault on our college and university campuses, Meredith Minister’s Rape Culture on Campus is a welcome reprieve. Minister’s book is written for an audience of academics, in our native language (that of Bourdieu, Edelman, and Ahmed), but recognizes this audience as one deeply in need of both analytical and pedagogical practices that resist rape culture. To this end, Minister deploys the work of feminist, womanist, queer, crip theorists to re-frame the issue, one that is all too often reduced to compensatory damages. Using her background in Religious and Theological studies, Minister effectively situates the problem as an outgrowth of the cultures of purity and law enforcement that remain ignored. Coercion, sexism, and religion, she argues, maintain the culture of violence that animates rape culture on campus. Beyond her astute assessment of the problem, Minister provides her readers with concrete approaches to institutional policies and pedagogical practices that offer a vision of higher education that can not only prevent, but resist the foundational and practical entrenchment of rape culture. For anyone concerned about their students, survivors of sexual assault, and the integrity of institutions of higher education, Rape Culture on Campus is essential reading material.
    — Sara Moslener, Central Michigan University


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