Abstract
2017 was a tumultuous year which unleashed revelations against sexual assault and harassment on a global scale, producing a social media campaign (#metoo) triggered by allegations against Hollywood director and producer Harvey Weinstein, and other public figures, and in which the JCU Broderick Review Report and the Australian Human Rights Commission Report on the nature and extent of sexual violence on Australian university campuses were both published. This research essay and accompanying story looks at the notion of "rape culture" on North American univesrity and school campuses and suggests that a renewed analysis of rape culture in the Australian and global milieu is overdue. In this, the story responds to Buchwald, Fletcher, and Roth’s call in Transforming a rape culture (1993, 2005) for new approaches to draw attention to sexual violence and its origins in everyday culture. It does so by seeking to refocus attention on rape culture in sensitive ways that might productively explore the complexity of normalised and socially pervasive sexual violence.
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Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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16
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1448-2940
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13
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James Cook University
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10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3631