Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Although sexual violence against women is on-going and widespread, it is generally not, except in some cases of rape in war-time, viewed as a politically significant phenomenon constituting a grave group-based injustice. After examining why this is the case, Brison argues that one strategy to make salient the political dimension of sexual violence is to call rape "gender-based violence" rather than "sex without consent." Doing so takes rape out of the apolitical interpersonal realm and reclassifies it as a form of injustice by situating it in the contexts of both criminal and civil rights law.
DOI: 10.3917/rip.235.0259
Author: Susan J. Brison
Institution: Dartmouth College
Language: French
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4299513932