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Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies" : = A rape culture commentary.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies" :/
Reminder of title:	A rape culture commentary.
Author:	Moskowitz, Danielle S.
Description:	1 online resource (48 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01.
Subject:	Canadian literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369358155

Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies" : = A rape culture commentary.
Moskowitz, Danielle S.

Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies" :A rape culture commentary. - 1 online resource (48 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references

In this thesis, I argue that Margaret Atwood's short story "Rape Fantasies" is a commentary on how patriarchal society and its media work in tandem to create and perpetuate the propaganda of rape culture. During the mid-1970s when the story was published, and since, anti-rape advocates have begun to reshape public discourse about rape and have influenced revisions of rape law. The fact remains, however, that "Rape Fantasies" is as relevant today as. it was in the 1970s, which indicates that there is much more work to do. Through the characters of the story, namely the protagonist, Estelle, Atwood provides an example of how rape culture has detrimental psychological effects on women. In my analysis of the story, I draw on Marxist literary criticism to show how mainstream culture reproduces citizens who unknowingly consume rape culture as the norm. I then complicate this analysis with a feminist critique of the reproduction theories of Marx and Althusser to show how they can help us understand the ways in which citizens disseminate and internalize rape culture's messages. Though Freud's theories are often viewed as phallocentric and misogynistic, feminist interpretations of his psychoanalytic theories are useful in our understanding of how the main character, Estelle, copes with living in a culture of rape. Eventually and indirectly, the characters prove to readers the absurdity of the concept of a rape fantasy.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369358155Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180491
Canadian literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies" : = A rape culture commentary.
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