Browsing by Subject "Rape"

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    Ideología hegemónica, conflicto discursivo y construcción de identidad en la cobertura mediática de la ‘Nochevieja alemana de 2015’
    Molpeceres Arnáiz, Sara
    En la ‘Nochevieja alemana de 2015’, centenares de mujeres denunciaron haber sido robadas, acosadas y agredidas sexualmente por grupos de hombres de origen norafricano o árabe. Desde el marco teórico-metodológico de la retórica constructivista y el análisis discursivo, el presente trabajo tiene como objeto dar cuenta del conflicto de interpretaciones que tuvo lugar a la hora de abordar el caso, poniendo el énfasis en dos marcos interpretativos distintos, el de ‘raza’/’identidad nacional’ y el de ‘género’, para ver cómo dichos marcos se usan desde el discurso hegemónico o de poder, dando lugar a una interpretación muy diferente a la de otros casos de presuntas agresiones sexuales que también analizaremos brevemente: un caso irlandés, el ‘Belfast Rape Trial’, y el caso español de ‘La Manada’.
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    Mitología contemporánea de la violación. Una revisión sobre la presencia de estereotipos de género en los tribunales españoles
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Lamo Velado, Irene de
    El objetivo de este artículo es revisar los principales mitos de la violación y cómo afectan en el sistema judicial español. Desde una perspectiva socio legal se realiza una revisión bibliográfica de investigaciones teóricas y empíricas sobre los mitos de la violación. Las investigaciones actuales en España sobre mitos de la violación y sistema judicial son un corpus pequeño de estudios que abordan de forman exploratoria la cuestión, pero ponen de manifiesto que los estereotipos sobre la violencia sexual influyen en los tribunales a la hora de valorar la prueba y dictar sentencia, aunque la bibliografía analizada explora principalmente mitos sobre las víctimas y apenas se incide en los estereotipos sobre los violadores.
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    Time’s up, Tarquin: the rape of Lucrece in the age of #Metoo
    (University of Porto Press, 2024) Cerdá Martínez, Juan Francisco; Filología Inglesa; Facultad de Letras
    The emergence of cultural materialism in the 1980s provoked a substantial reevaluation of Shakespeare’s work, as critics felt the ethical need to renegotiate the values and discourses of early modern culture as they circulated in late Western societies. Certain plays, such as The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus and Measure for Measure, have received especial scrutiny from the perspective of gender. Instead, inhabiting a rather peripheral space within the Shakespeare canon, his poetry has received little attention as much as its resonances are of similar relevance to the concerns of late gender debates. This chapter extends this presentist reevaluation of early modern literature by examining the poem The Rape of Lucrece in the light of current discussions of feminism and gender violence. Shakespeare’s treatment of rape – an otherwise central concern of early modern culture – and of Lucrece – a character that also fascinated Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower amongst others – is here analysed in relation to (post)modern conceptions of feminine empowerment. Ultimately, the question is whether Lucrece’s bravery can be taken on by the brave new worlds, peoples, and women of the twentieth-first century. The Rape of Lucrece is currently not amongst Shakespeare’s most popular works.1 It can be argued that 1855 lines of iambic pentameter distributed among 265 septets of steady “rhyme royal” (ababbcc) is not the most fashionable format in the Netflix-obsessed late-modern cultural climate of 2019. But this wasn’t always the case. Together with numerous editions and praising references by fellow poets, in 1598 Gabriel Harvey annotated in the margin of his copy of Chaucer that “[t]he younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, but his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in hem to Facing Europe in Crisis please the wiser sort” (apud Hehmeyer, 2013: 140). This illustrates the intellectual depth and popularity with which the poem was perceived at the time. A high regard which contrasts with the marginal position the poem holds nowadays within the Shakespeare canon. Even specifically, within the specialized circles of Shakespearean scholarship, the poem has not fared too well and, as Katharine Eisaman Maus has suggested, such limited attention can be at least partly attributed to how modern critics have “persistently object[ed] to its elaborate rhetoric” (Eisaman Maus, 1986: 66). This is, I believe, an accurate characterization of much of what has been written about the poem. A line of inquiry that is to a large extent exhausted or, at least, outdated since debates about the rhetorical quality of Shakespeare’s works have become rare in a research community that now tends not to evaluate, but to historicize Shakespeare’s writing. However, a different approach has kept the poem alive, that is (what I should broadly term) feminist criticism. It is not a surprise that feminism would have something to say about a poem that re-versifies the semi-historical, semimythical account of the rape of Lucrece, the virtuous, chaste and beautiful wife of the nobleman Collatine, at the hands of Tarquin, son of the last Roman king: a poem that provides an extensive and intensive representation of the psychological processes involved in a sexual assault; a poem that ends with Lucrece’s suicide, the banishment of Tarquin and the rest of the royal family, and the establishment of the Roman republic. Sustained attention to the motivations, processes and consequences of rape make the poem worth revisiting in 2019, a time in which sexual violence – from the Harvey Weinstein scandal to the Spanish “Wolfpack” / “La Manada”, just to name two high-profile cases – has taken up a specially relevant space within the preoccupations of late-modern feminism.