Wednesday 16 May 2007

A new focus in anti-rape work?

There's been an ongoing discussion for quite some time now in the feminist blogsphere concerning the way we tackle rape and other related violence against women. Many women are tired of anti-rape work that only focuses on warning the women and asking her in some way to change her actions eg walking a different way home and so on. Instead campaigns should focus on the men who commit such acts and those who contribute to the society which encourages them to happen. This article by Jaclyn Friedman sets out the argument quite well.

So what I'm asking is how do we do this? What do we about those men who commit violence against women, in particular rape, and how do we move this focus from attempting to change the victim's behaviour onto changing that of the criminal?

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