Fraternity Gang Rape
Subtitle: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: NYU Press; New York University Press
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780814740385
Subjects: Men's studies; Sexual abuse; Social, group or collective psychology; Universities / polytechnics; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; USA; Criminology; Human Sexuality; Students & Student Life; Anthropology - General; Gender Studies; Women's Studies - General; Case studies; College students; Gang rape; Greek letter societies; Sexual behavior; United States
Description: 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.