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“It Can Happen to You”: Rape Prevention in the Age of Risk Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Rachel Hall
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Abstract

This essay provides a critical analysis of rape prevention since the 1980s. I argue that we must challenge rape prevention's habitual reinforcement of the notion that fear is a woman's best line of defense. I suggest changes that must be made in the anti-rape movement if we are to move past fear. Ultimately, I raise the question of what, if not vague threats and scare tactics, constitutes prevention.

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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 2004 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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