Delivery & Return:Free shipping on all orders over $50
Estimated Delivery:7-15 days international
People:15 people viewing this product right now!
Easy Returns:Enjoy hassle-free returns within 30 days!
Payment:Secure checkout
SKU:39084421
Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo provides audiences with constructive models of affirmative consent, tender masculinity, and pleasure in popular culture that work to challenge toxic dominant and hegemonic constructions. While numerous scholars have illustrated the many ways mediated culture shape social understandings of sexual violence, this book analyzes texts that might serve to resist rape culture. This project locates how these texts manufacture cinematic or televisual narratives and in turn work to create new realities that encourage cultural and social change. Kelly Wilz analyzes the ways in which we, as a culture, tend to understand sex through visual media and dominant cultural myths, while highlighting productive texts which might serve as a possible corrective to the ways in which sex is ritualized by rules that legitimize violence. Through the lens of productive criticism, Wilz examines how language and dominant ideologies around rape culture and rape myths reinforce systemic violence, and how visual texts might work to reimagine how we might disrupt those ideologies and create new ways to engage in conversations around intimacy and violence. By centering the voices within the #MeToo movement, who actively work to de-normalize sexual assault and abuse, these models provide a useful counter to the deluge of dehumanizing narratives about survivors and sexualized violence. Scholars of pop culture, women’s studies, media studies, and social justice will find this book particularly useful.
Dr. Wilz’s book on viewing consent - post the #metoo movement gaining momentum and notoriety in media lens - looks deeper into how media perpetuates a rampant rape culture. Wilz’s book is a deep, well researched & analyzed look into the models of consent - or lack thereof- which are present in media. The break down of (more well-know ) movies and television allows for readers to make connections of the tropes often seen in popular media and media they consume. The way which Wilz covers dehumanization (and re-humanization through I Am Evidence), as well as covering toxic hegemonic masculinity, and intimate justice ( to name a few larger topics in the book) is fantastic! Wilz creates a space for opening the conversation of what can be done when these pervasive beliefs and tropes on consent and rape permeate society and media. I am loving being able to sit down after a day of work and sink into this book!A less academic review of Wilz’s book: it’s absolutely amazing, and I’m loving reading it!! Wilz’s words and analyses are powerful and have me awe-struck as I realize I didn’t think of some of these shows or films with a more analytic lens. Media’s presentation of rape culture and consent are so important and having this book to look more into this has been great! Wilz’s book and words were absolutely needed in this time of my life. Her book helped refuel the hope, passion, and anger that fuels me to keep doing the work I do.I recommend anyone and everyone read this! If you don’t have financial access to it, see if your local school or community library has it/could get it.
