Fraternity gang rape : sex, brotherhood, and privilege on campus / Peggy Reeves Sanday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanday, Peggy Reeves.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gang rape--United States--Case studies.

Gang rape.

Greek letter societies--United States--Case studies.

Greek letter societies.

College students--Sexual behavior--United States--Case studies.

College students.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction to the second edition

Foreword / by Judge Lois G. Forer

Introduction to the first edition

The XYZ express

Campus party culture

Rape, or, "She asked for it?"

Other victims, other campuses

Phallocentrism, male power and silencing the feminine

"Working a yes out" : fraternity sexual discourse

The initiation ritual : a model for life

The law of the brothers

Constructing a sexist subjectivity

Afterword: 2006

has anything changed?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-0898-6

1-4294-9019-5

OCLC:

614487937

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access