Web resource:	http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/682964?journalCode=signs
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Dead to the world : rape, unconsciousness, and social media
Authors:	Heyes, Cressida J
Keywords:	Victims / survivors;Social attitudes;Consent;Rape;Sexual assault
Year:	2016
Citation:	Vol. 41, no. 2
Notes:	"A recent popular focus on sexual assault cases involving women who are unconscious — whether because drunk, drugged, anesthetized, in a coma, or asleep — has drawn attention to the role of social media in both exacerbating and gaining redress for the harms of rape while unconscious. This article intersectionally situates cultural anxiety about women's unconsciousness and sexual assault while offering a phenomenological analysis of its harms. ... By providing a richer phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of rape in these circumstances, and by showing its complexity and ubiquity, I hope to undermine the trivialization of this kind of offense, and to challenge pervasive attitudes of victim blaming that permeate popular commentary on sexual violence against women who are unconscious or semiconscious." From preprint open access version abstract
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14126
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