Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
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This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation and hazing rituals. In a substantial new introduction and afterword, Sanday updates the incidences of fraternity gang rape on college campuses today, highlighting such recent cases as that of Duke University and others in the headlines. Sanday also explores the nature of hazing at sororities on campus and how Greek life in general contributes to a culture which promotes the exploitation and sexual degradation of women on campus. More broadly, Sanday examines the nature of campus life today and the possibility of creating a rape-free campus culture. Booknews Reeves (psych, U. of Penn.) presents case studies of rape--usually the victim is drunk or high on drugs. The work ends with details of frat initiations demonstrating the inculcation of sexist and brutish attitudes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction to the Second Edition 1Foreword Judge Lois G. Forer 23Introduction to the First Edition 33Acknowledgments 49The XYZ ExpressCampus Party Culture 53The XYZ Express 66Rape or "She Asked for It"? 83Other Victims, Other Campuses 108Phallocentrism, Male Power, and Silencing the Feminine"Working a Yes Out": Fraternity Sexual Discourse 129The Initiation Ritual: A Model for Life 148The Law of the Brothers 165Constructing a Sexist Subjectivity 180Afterword: 2006-Has Anything Changed? 198Bibliography 237Index 243About the Author 254
