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Annotated Bibliography: Male involvement in Rape Prevention on College Campus Abbey, Antonia, and Richard J. Harnish. "Perception of Sexual Intent: the Role of Gender, Alcohol Consumption and Rape Supportive Attitudes." (1995). 7 Apr. 2008
This article would be very important to my project because it point to how men and women perceive certain situations differently. This article speaks to my thesis in trying to figure out why men involvement in sexual assault activism. After figuring out how men and women think differently, we would be able to find a way to prevent rape against women.
Boswell, Ayres A., and Joan Z. Spade. "Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?" Gender and Society 10 (1996): 133-147. Jstor. Syracuse, NY. 31 Mar. 2008
This article is important toward my article because it looks at how the macrocosm of society and its social construct it produces can work on a micro defined level such as Fraternity parties on college campus. In understanding and constructing a plan of action in male participation, we much first understand the how man in certain social circles perceive women.
Gold, Jodi, and Susan Villari, eds. Just Sex. Oxford: Powan and Littlefield, INC, 2000. 150-187. Just Sex is a collection of stories written in college student’s point of view about sexual assault. It examines how many became active in the issue of stopping sexual assault. Chapter 14 examines how sexual assault is part of oppression against women. It looked at how the rape programs of today are the new kind of activism that is less about protesting and boycotting but more about helping out your community. Chapter 15 outlines an example of how men can get involve in the prevention and education of sexual assault: through male peer education.
Just Sex is important to my project because it outlined ways in which people (not just women) can get involve in activism against sexual assault. The book help to open the narrow views that people might have about what activism is about. Chapter 15 gave an opposing view that some women look at men involvement in rape prevention and education as a threat, which would be a good counter argument in the paper.
Mac Donald, Heather. "The Campus Rape Myth." City Journal (2008). 12 Apr. 2008
MacDonald looked at how sexual assault program, stats, and activism on college campus is a not base on facts but on hysteria. MacDonald believed that sexual assault programs are base on radical feminism, which believe that all men are the cause of women’s’ problems. The article try to criticize the idea of what is considered rape in our society not as fact based, but just women just having bad sex they regret. MacDonald believes that schools and the women who say they are sexually assaulted should be accountable for sexual assault.
Though this article is written by women, it is great article to examine how some people think sexual assault college campus is hyperbolized and based on deception. The article by MacDonald is a great counter-argument in my paper to show that some people think its women who are given men false perception about sex.
"Myths About Sexual Assault." Vera house. 2008. 3 Apr. 2008
This website gives the public good facts about the rape prevention and education. The Vera House would provide me with an example of activism that’s in Syracuse.
Schwartz, Martin D., and Walter S. Dekeseredy. Sexual Assault on the College Campus. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, Inc, 1997. The book is broken down into two sections of information. The first part of the book deals with why rape occurs on college campuses, how often it occurs, and what can be done to prevent it. The second part of the book is basically a subtopic of what the first part of the book is about. The second part of the book deals men peer support, which can help reduce the number of men that commit sexual assault. This whole deals with everything about our topic including the Williams 4 sociological and psychological aspect of why male commit rape against women and whys that we can prevent it.
In t the book it is evident that the two male sociologists wrote this book in the same style of many feminist authors showing the correlation of male dominance masculinity and the marginalization of women as reasons why rape occurs on college campuses. Instead of being anti-men, the authors showed ways in which men can prevent other men from sexually assaulting women by being peer counselor and education.
Stepp, Laura S. "A New Kind of Date Rape." Cosmopolitan Sept. 2007: 10-12. In the article is about a common occurrence at many college campuses called gray rape. Gray rape refers to sex that falls somewhere between consent and denial and is even more confusing than date rape because often both parties are unsure of who wanted what. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 1 in 5 college women will be raped at some point during a five-year college career; that about 9 out of 10 times, the victim will know her assailant; and that half of all victims will not call what happened rape. Sixty-two percent of female rape victims in general say they were assaulted by someone they knew, which includes dates, acquaintances, and random hookups. Many experts believe that the cause of gray rape is due in part by the hookup culture of partying and flirting, plenty of alcohol, and the idea that women can be just as bold and adventurous about sex as men are.
This source is very important to my article because it deals with rape that occurs in college. The article examines how certain situations like partying and alcohol can lead to unwanted sexual assault. The article also examines how sometime men who were apart of "gray rape” might not know whether are not they sexually assaulted a woman because of the ambiguity of the situation. Williams 5
"The Moderating Role of Ambivalent Sexism: the Influence of Power Status on Perception of Rape Victim and Rapist." Journal of Social Psychology (2007). Contemporary Women's Issues. Syracuse, NY. 7 Apr. 2008
The purpose of the article was to show a clear correlation between sexism and rape myth belief among men. Men who were viewed as highly sexist towards women was more likely to believe that it was the women fault they got rape. Also, men who were viewed as highly sexist where also found to be more likely to rape women if the risk of getting caught was diminished. This article helps in distinguishing men who are at greater risk of rape. By knowing the characteristic of men who are likely to rape we can target our activism toward those men who fall in the category of hostile sexism.
Ward, Sally K., Kathy Chapman, Ellen Cohn, Susan White, and Kirk Williams. "Acquaintance Rape and the College Social Scene." Family Relations 40 (1991): 65-71. Jstor. Syracuse. 3 Mar. 2008
Acquaintance Rape and the College Social Scene examine the different types of rape that occur on college campuses. This academic journal looks at how many people view rape in the terms of stranger attacking victim and rarely look at the different degrees of rape that are common in Williams 6 college especially at different social events. The article breaks down rape into four different categories including, acquaintance rape which is rape perpetrated by a person the victim knows but is not a friend, date rape, and when the victim is rape by a stranger. The last kind of rape discussed falls between date rape and acquaintance rape when the victim just met the perpetrator but they are apart of the same social scene.
The authors of the journal purpose were to broaden the scope of what is considered rape especially when it involves the college social scene. Many people define rape as just when the victim is attacked in the bushes by a stranger (a common rape myth) and that that kind of rape seldom happens.