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"Rape Fantasies", 2006.
This article discusses Margaret Atwood's short story "Rape Fantasies".
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This article studies the book "Rape Fantasies" and the writer asks the question "Who is the victim when a woman is raped?" The writer maintains that the women of Margaret Atwood's short story "Rape Fantasies" suggest that women often cannot identify who is a victim and who is not a victim when they are raped. The story is told as a monologue in the first person voice of a woman named Estelle. It chronicles a group of women indulging in spoken fantasies about rape, specifically being raped by men. At first, the women's joking tones suggest that they are not really talking about being raped at all, but enjoying their sexuality. The women desire sex with strangers but use the word 'rape' as a way of discussing their unspoken and unacknowledged sexual desires in a culture that does not permit women to openly acknowledge their sexuality in a positive fashion. But at the end of the story, as Estelle is revealed to be speaking her monologue to a man she has met in a bar, Atwood suggests that ultimately, even when women are joking about rape, rape is still a very serious act against women in terms of female victimization.
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"In defiance of the warnings cited by the narrator from popular women's magazines, Chrissy says she fears men. But Chrissy is still a victim, because she cannot enjoy sex other than in terms of being forced to enjoy sex. In her daily life Chrissy dresses to attract men and to win male approval. In Chrissy's private life she uses the idea of forced sexuality as a way of enjoying male attentions without the pressures of the consenting to sex. Thus, Chrissy is still a victim of rape ideology.
Estelle, the office worker responds to Chrissy's comments by noting how popular the topic of rape has become in women's magazines, citing titles like "Rape: Ten Things To Do About It" is less open in her attitude. At first, Estelle pokes fun at the magazine's obsession, noting that the carefulness urged by the magazine on the part of women makes it seem like avoiding sexual assault is a step-by-step process ''like it was ten new hairdos or something," not a serious criminal and personal issue. The story evolves from Estelle's point of view. But there are hints that Estelle initially finds the conversation of her female colleagues uncomfortable, as is evidenced by her focus on the beginning pursuit of the women, a bridge game and by concentrating on her bidding."
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Margaret Atwood "Rape Fantasies", 1993.
Analyzes short story & its perspectives on the meaning of rape.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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" Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies" is an interesting mixture of stream-of-consciousness speculation and fiction, a short story with elements of non-fiction, a story and an essay combined. What makes the piece work as it does is the tone the author takes, a tone that maintains a sense of humor while having an underling sense of the importance of the issue. In the final analysis, the last line of the piece is what gives it its real poignancy and its strength, while everything that has gone before serves both to bolster the importance of the subject while poking some fun at the degree to which the media seems to have suddenly "discovered" it, as if prior to that it was not a problem at all.
The irony of the piece is inherent in its title. The use of the word "fantasies" coupled with the word "rape" leads to some misunderstanding in the story itself as the women playing cards.."
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Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies", 2000.
How the character of Estelle analyzes the other characters, proves her competitiveness, and tries to identify with people and situations, which allow us to make our own opinions on her.
1,260 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, $ 42.95
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"The plot in Margaret Atwood?s ?Rape Fantasies? is rather hidden, but is revealed through the mind and conversations of Estelle. This story exhibits character traits of Estelle as she speaks to the reader about her and her colleague?s rape fantasies. As Estelle voices her opinions on this anomalous topic and on her critical opinions of the other women, Darlene, Greta, and Chrissy, we develop a certain perspective of her character. Estelle reveals her own persona by expressing her thoughts and attitudes toward the rape fantasies of her colleagues and her own, and Atwood allows us to begin to understand to person Estelle is because she goes beyond first person, via a narrator who befriends the reader. Estelle is the only wholly developed character, and has many pleasant and unpleasant personality traits that give this story its voice. Throughout the story she analyzes the other characters, proves her competitiveness, and tries to identify with people and situations, which allow us to make our own opinions on the character of Estelle..."
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Sexual Fantasies, 2002.
Discusses sexual fantasies as a means of erotic release for both men and women.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper explores sexual fantasies and how fantasies are experienced as a means of providing release from social limitations on erotic behavior for men and women alike.
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Epic Fantasies, 2002.
Contrasts two epics.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 26.95
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This essay provides a comparison and contrast between two of the greatest epics ever written - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Hobbit".
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The Fantasies of Sleepy Hollow, 2003.
The following essay discusses the daydream of Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's film, "Sleepy Hollow".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 23.95
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This essay draws on the similarities and comparisons between Washington Irving?s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and Tim Burton?s film, "Sleepy Hollow" with specific reference to the daydream scenes.
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? Yet this daydream has no few of the aspects of a nightmare as well. In the real world, the worst Ichabod will ever endure is a fall from his faithful, and borrowed, steed Gunpowder. In the daydream film, he shall be skewered with a ghostly sword, beaten, choked, and otherwise bodily assaulted. The horsemen will not be a possible figment, a traveler who merely keeps pace and tosses pumpkins; to the contrary, he shall kill any number of people.?
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The Re-definition of Rape, 2006.
A look at how the feminist movement has re-defined the definition of rape and the effect that rape has on a victim.
1,860 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper discusses how historically, the concept of rape has severed to protect a man's right to exclusive sexual access to his woman, while the feminist re-definition of rape empowers women to assert control over their own bodies. This paper also reviews various reactions to this re-definition of rape and discusses the effects that rape has on a victim.
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"Criminology indicated that date rape was an under-reported crime (Date pp). Vanstone highlighted the fact that sex through physical violence is clearly viewed as rape, date rape, on the other hand, may not involve physical violence (Date pp). There are other forms other forms of coercion to obtain sex that is also considered rape, such as "fear of violence, detention, intoxication with alcohol or a drug, and deception can all be factors relevant to whether the woman has consented (Date pp). Vanstone said that date rape has been an offence for a very long time, yet only recently has been acknowledged as a serious social problem (Date pp). According to a 1996 survey, almost 90 percent of rape victims know the perpetrator, and of these victims, some 25 percent were the current partner, boyfriend or date of the victim in the twelve months prior to the survey, and if previous partners are added in, the percentage is as high as 37 percent (Date pp). However, date rape is rarely reported to law enforcement authorities, and most surveys indicate that the number of sexual assaults reported to the police are only the tip of the iceberg (Date pp). "
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Rape Statistics, 2002.
An examination of statistics surrounding the crime of rape - unreported rape, likelihood of being a victim etc.
1,510 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper is a study of the calculation of statistics about rape. The data that the writer chose for this assignment involves the number of injuries resultant from violent crime in the United States. Specifically, the writer looks at how the likelihood of being the victim of a violent crime in the United States is related to gender and race of the victim. Included in the paper are worked calculations and tables.
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"In order to make such a study possible, the researchers have to look at a large collection of data, sometimes incomplete that will vary from doctor to doctor. One of the first problems that arise is the underreporting of rape in the United States. It is widely believed in the United States that only 1 out of three rapes are reported to authorities. The second problem is that different doctors will characterize the injuries differently among No injury, severe injury, and minor injury. For example, a bruise for one doctor may be a minor injury, but for another doctor, no injury. The measurement scale is an interval, severe, some (minor) injury, or no injury. Attached is a copy of the data from the Bureau of Justice statistics.'
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Rape Myths, 2008.
This paper argues the negative influences of rape myths on crime policy and society.
3,010 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper explains that people who report the crime of rape to the authorities are attacked very often because of rape myths. The author points out that rape myths permeate society with their age old rhetoric and transform large scale false beliefs. The paper stresses that rape myths give perpetrators the ability to justify their actions and, at the same time, they discredit the real victims who wish to seek justice. The author underscores that there are numerous rape myths, but the most common ones, which the author examines in detail, are 'you can't rape the willing', 'men are at danger of being falsely accused of rape', 'some categories of forced sex are not really rape' and, the most famous one of all, 'no can mean yes'.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Impossible to Rape an Unwilling Woman
Women Secretly Want to be Raped
Women Cry Rape
Conclusion
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"Metaphorically speaking, the penis was deemed a weapon and the vagina as a submissive holder for it. The saying implicates that by merely 'vibrating', this holder could fend off the attack. In the words of Michael Ryan, one of the most prominent jurists in the 1830s, it was 'almost impossible' to rape a resisting woman. Children who had claimed that they were raped had to do so very carefully, many at the time considered the rape of a child impossible! John Leeson, who was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, was one of the professionals who had claimed this."
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The Social Learning Account of Rape, 2006.
A critical explanation into the causation of rape, focusing on the social learning theory of rape.
2,430 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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Rape has a number of definitions and traditionally rape is defined as the forced, non consensual, penetrative vaginal sex. This paper aims to discuss the causation behind this cruel and obscene violation to a person's self, using the most popular theory of rape; the social learning theory. It begins with a generalisation of the theory with reference to Bandura, of which the theory is based upon followed by an explanation of how this theory relates to and provides a cause for the unlawful act.
The main theme throughout is pornography and how this may or may not have a direct effect upon people, particularly men who rape. It also discusses the impact of culture, society, aggression theories and feminism.
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"The social learning theory is a general theory of human behaviour, a variant of Behaviourism which looks at the way in which certain behaviour is acquired. Social learning theory, however, pays greater attention to the concept of human development and moreover recognises substantially the role of social reinforcements in explaining how these behaviours are learned. The basic proposition is that the same learning process in a context of social structure, situation and interaction, generates both conforming and deviant behaviour."
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The Effects of Rape on Subsequent Relationships, 2001.
A research paper on the effect of rape on later relationships, determining if women who are raped have a difficult time becoming emotionally or romantically close to a man.
2,275 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper examines the effect rape has on victims' subsequent intimate relationships. By interviewing women and providing in-depth research this paper show how women who have been raped a single time by a man who she does not know are more likely to have problems with their post-rape relationships. The paper details reasons for this difficulty in forming relationships and discusses possible treatments.
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"In a society where rape is a common occurrence, Kilpatrick, Edmonds, & Seymour (1992) found that 1 in 8 adult women in a given community have been raped, it is important to understand the long-term effects on the victim (as cited in Layman, Gidycz, & Lynn 1996). More specifically, the purpose of this study is to discover the long-term effects of rape on subsequent intimate (emotional and sexual involved) relationships on women who have been raped a single time. It is hypothesized that women who are raped a single time and do not receive social and psychological support will be more likely than women who have not been raped to have difficulties with subsequent intimate relationships with men. Women are the focus of this study because they are commonly thought of as being raped more often than and are more likely to report rape than men."
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Rape Shield Laws, 2002.
Discusses rape shield laws - where a victim's personal sexual history may not be used against her in a trial - and their effectiveness.
2,945 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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This paper analyzes and examines the multitude of issues concerning rape shield laws. Part II discusses why rape shield laws were and are necessary. In Part III, New Jersey?s rape shield law is outlined. Part IV reviews noteworthy cases involving rape shield laws. In Part V, the pros and cons of rape shield laws are examined. Lastly, this paper concludes with recommendations concerning how and why rape shield laws should be modified.
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"Few crimes have long-term (or lifelong) impacts upon victims. Some crimes, like child abuse, domestic violence, molestation, murder, and rape, exact long-term (and often lifelong) pain upon victims. What makes rape particularly traumatizing to victims is that rape inflicts both physical violence upon victims as well as emotional trauma. Rape victims are instantaneously stripped of control, dignity, personal safety, self-esteem, etc."
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The Causes of Rape, 2002.
A comparison of two theories of behavior which lead to rape as set forth by experts in the psychology field.
3,462 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 97.95
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The paper shows that there are a number of different views of the meaning of rape, its causes and other issues of importance. Different theorists and analysts have offered their view of the meaning of this act, the reason why this type of violence seems necessary to some people, the effect of rape on the victim, and the view taken of these matters by society. The paper explains that criminologists take different views of the causes of rape based on different theories of behavior. It examines two such theories - The 'Social Learning Theory' as set forth by a number of theorists, among them Ronald Akers and 'Radical Feminist Theory', which combines a feminist perspective on society with ideas about what causes human behavior. In terms of rape, this means male behavior. The paper shows that in some ways, both theories address rape from a perspective involving learned behavior and would try to solve the problem by substituting a different learning structure. It explains that where Akers and the Radical Feminists differ is in their definitions of rape and so in terms of the behavior they are explaining.
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"Akers (1998) states that his General Theory "is applicable to all types of criminal and deviant behavior, from minor violations of social norms to the most serious and organized criminal activities" (Akers, 1998, xx). He offers a chapter on rape and sexual aggression in which he calls such crimes "sexual access," and describes the crime in terms of non-consensual sexual intercourse. This brings him into conflict with some feminists on the subject, such as Rozee (1994), who states that "limiting definitions of rape to only non-consensual sexual intercourse ignores some of the most violent and obviously non-sex-related cases of rape that occur, such as penetration with objects" (Rozee, 1994, 500). It would also exclude male victims, victims who are underage, wives, and the non-forcible rape of an incapacitated victim, which Rozee would not exclude."
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Childhood Rape, 2004.
Explores the long-term effects of rape using the book, "Prince of Tides", for reference.
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The writer of this paper examines the topic of childhood rape through the storyline of the book, "Prince of Tides", and explores research into long-term effects of rape, focusing on childhood rape. How childhood rape affects a person as an adult is the central theme of this paper.
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"For many years troubled adults were ignored or punished for their mental state. Adults who had been raped as children were expected to just ?get over it? or ?move past it?. Society did not connect the fact that the adult had been raped as a child with the problems occurring in adulthood. These adults would display instability in many ways when it came to conducting their lives. In recent history therapists have begun to understand the very real long lasting effect that childhood rape has on the lives of the adult victims. In the story Prince of Tides by Pat Connery the issue of rape effects are explored and explained in the plot. While the book itself is fiction it is a truthful and honest account of the negative impact childhood rape has on the victim when the victim enters and lives in adulthood."
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Rape Myths, 2007.
This paper examines the issue of rape and argues against the myths that place the responsibility for such violence on the victim.
1,069 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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In this article, the writer points out that the act of rape is one of the most violent and demeaning crimes in society. Further, the writer notes that rape is more associated with aggression and domination than it is with sex. The writer explains that not only does this act cause physical harm but it is also emotionally and psychologically damaging to the victim. In this paper, the writer discusses that in spite of the suffering of rape victims, the myth is often propagated in society that women initiate rape either by being alluring or tacitly leading the male on. The writer concludes that it should be remembered that rape is a crime and a social act that has enormous consequences for the victim.
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"However, mythical attitudes and stereotypes have an extremely negative effect, not directly only on the women who is a victim of rape but also in terms of the reportage and combating of this crime; as well as on the subsequent arrest rates. Due to this myth that women often invite rape, many women feel that they are somehow to blame if they are raped. This has been given as a central reason why many women do not report being raped to the authorities. The myths therefore tend to distort the victims sense of psychological balance and viewpoint and point to the possibility that she may have in some way led the rapist on or encouraged him. These women therefore internalize the dominant social rape myths that are promulgated in the society and culture so that they become a measure of 'reality'."
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