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Rape Culture Syllabus
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Transforming a Rape Culture
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Emilie Buchwald (Editor)
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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
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Kate Harding (Goodreads Author)
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
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Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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The Female of the Species
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Mindy McGinnis (Goodreads Author)
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He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
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Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 3,272 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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Danielle L. McGuire (Goodreads Author)
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Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
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Rape Girl
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Alina Klein (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
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4.41 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Rape in Marriage
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Diana E.H. Russell (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Lucky
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Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Assault
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Asking For It
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Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
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The Bell Jar
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
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SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence
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Katie Cappiello (Editor)
4.30 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
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4.34 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out
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Annie E. Clark (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Push
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Sapphire (Goodreads Author)
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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
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Documents on the Rape of Nanking
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Timothy Brook (Editor)
4.57 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Nanking Road
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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
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The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
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Mob Rule In New Orleans
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Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
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Identical
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Here We Are
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All the Rage
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!
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Faking Normal (Faking Normal, #1)
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery
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Privilege: A Reader
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Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sold
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Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
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We Should All Be Feminists
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The Rape of Lucrece
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Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
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Feminists Theorize the Political
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Judith Butler (Editor)
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Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color
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In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence
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Male Rape: The Emergence of a Social and Legal Issue
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Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered
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Real Rape
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Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
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Corregidora
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Rape New York
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The Civil Contract of Photography
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
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Nan Goldin (Photographer)
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
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Jaclyn Friedman (Goodreads Author)
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The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
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Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality At The Border
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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
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Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
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Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link
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Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms
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The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II
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Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
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Denise A. Segura (Editor)
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Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
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Toni Morrison (Editor, Introduction)
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
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Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport
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The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape
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Jessica Luther (Goodreads Author)
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Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
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Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change
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I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
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Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
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Masculinities
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
