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Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement Against Sexual Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Renee Heberle
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Abstract

This essay considers the social effects of the strategy of “speaking out” about sexual violence to transform rape culture. I articulate the paradox that women's identification as victims in the public sphere reinscribes the gendered norms that enable the victimization of women. I suggest we create a more diversified public narrative of sexual violence and sexuality within the context of the movement against sexual violence in order to deconstruct masculinist power in feminine victimization.

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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women and Violence , Fall 1996 , pp. 63 - 76
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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