TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuklanz,Lisa M.
TI  - Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change 
T2  - Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture
SN  - 9780812215595
AV  - P96.R35 C85 1996eb
U1  - 364.1/532 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Rape in mass media
KW  - Rape
KW  - United States
KW  - Trials (Rape)
KW  - Women
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Film Studies
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction: Why Famous Rape Trials? --; 2. A Particular Social Reality: Rape Law and Rape Law Reform --; 3. Issue-Oriented Trials in the Context of Social Change --; 4. Mainstream Coverage: Trials as News Events --; 5. Popular Re-Presentations --; 6. Conclusion --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Why has so much of the public discussion of rape focused on a few specific cases, and to what extent has this discussion incorporated the feminist perspective on rape? Rape on Trial explores these questions and provides answers based on a detailed examination of the mainstream news coverage of the John and Greta Rideout marital rape case, the Big Dan's Tavern gang rape case, and the Webb-Dotson rape recantation case.Lisa M. Cuklanz traces where and how rape reform ideas were granted legitimacy in mainstream news coverage. She finds that while the subsequent fictionalized versions frequently adopted the themes foregrounded in the news coverage, they usually were more sympathetic toward-and indeed often took on-the rape victim's point of view
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203998
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