CMN 396 UNIT 4 EXAM WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTION
Defining Sexual Violence as a crime: Statistical - ANSWER Is the behavior
frequent or infrequent?
Other factors in defining sexual violence as a crime - ANSWER What is the
consensus on the wrongfulness of the act?
How severe is the social response?
How does society evaluate how much harm is inflicted?
What are some of the ways that CLS agents don't take sexual violence
seriously? - ANSWER 1. Sheriffs and their attitudes towards violence against
women
2. Believes inaccurate things about rape and treats their trainees/policies as
such
3. "Private matter" instead of "assault"
What is one place where the deviance/criminality of sexual violence is
contested - ANSWER The media
Consciousness-raising - ANSWER The act of calling attention to issues/causes
within one's life and society
- Borrows from ideas of political consciousness
- Often took place in group forums
, - Associated with second-wave feminism
What is the goal of consciousness-raising? - ANSWER spur consciousness,
awareness, and action
Politicization - ANSWER The process of moving an issues from the realm of
fate to that of government
The continuum of politicization - ANSWER Fate to private sphere, to public
sphere, to governmental sphere
Can work backwards (depoliticization)
Consciousness-raising in politicization - ANSWER Private sphere to public
sphere politicization
Jackson et al (2020) - ANSWER Feminist twitter as a networked counterpublic
#YesAllWomen, #TheEmptyChair, #MeToo as consciousness-raising efforts
Politicization in Jackson (2020) - ANSWER Moving sexual violence from a
"medicalized" private issues to a public issue/concern
Agenda Setting Model - ANSWER Elites to policy
policy to public
public to media
media back to elites
#YesAllWomen - ANSWER identify the gendered phenomenon of sexual
violence
#SurvivorPrivilege - ANSWER call attention to lasting harms of sexual
violence
, Goals of #survivorprivilege - ANSWER (re)define sexual violence as
criminal/deviant based on negative consequences
De-invisiblize sexual assault and its consequences
#WhyIStayed - ANSWER push back against victim blaming narratives
#TheEmpty Chair - ANSWER call attention to the scale of the problem
- represents all of the victims too scared to come forward about their
assault
- surrounding the Bill Cosby Allegations
#MeToo - ANSWER Grass roots+celebrity power to raise greater visibility
"The personal is political" - ANSWER Carol Hanisch, 1970
"Political"/ "politics" go far beyond elections, parties, and politicians
Notice where politicians/governments try to silence or depoliticize issues
Banet-Weiser and Higgins (2022) - ANSWER Believability is a commodity
- Something that someone "has": can be worked for, secured, lost
- Has its own economy based on identities of victims and perpetrators
example that has a performance of believability - ANSWER unbelievable
Unbelievable (true crime podcast) - ANSWER About a serial rapist: one of his
first victims was a young girl, the police didn't believe her and ended up
charging her for falsely accusing a crime due to inconsistencies in her
responses (they heavily questioned her when she was traumatized)
COMPLETE SOLUTION
Defining Sexual Violence as a crime: Statistical - ANSWER Is the behavior
frequent or infrequent?
Other factors in defining sexual violence as a crime - ANSWER What is the
consensus on the wrongfulness of the act?
How severe is the social response?
How does society evaluate how much harm is inflicted?
What are some of the ways that CLS agents don't take sexual violence
seriously? - ANSWER 1. Sheriffs and their attitudes towards violence against
women
2. Believes inaccurate things about rape and treats their trainees/policies as
such
3. "Private matter" instead of "assault"
What is one place where the deviance/criminality of sexual violence is
contested - ANSWER The media
Consciousness-raising - ANSWER The act of calling attention to issues/causes
within one's life and society
- Borrows from ideas of political consciousness
- Often took place in group forums
, - Associated with second-wave feminism
What is the goal of consciousness-raising? - ANSWER spur consciousness,
awareness, and action
Politicization - ANSWER The process of moving an issues from the realm of
fate to that of government
The continuum of politicization - ANSWER Fate to private sphere, to public
sphere, to governmental sphere
Can work backwards (depoliticization)
Consciousness-raising in politicization - ANSWER Private sphere to public
sphere politicization
Jackson et al (2020) - ANSWER Feminist twitter as a networked counterpublic
#YesAllWomen, #TheEmptyChair, #MeToo as consciousness-raising efforts
Politicization in Jackson (2020) - ANSWER Moving sexual violence from a
"medicalized" private issues to a public issue/concern
Agenda Setting Model - ANSWER Elites to policy
policy to public
public to media
media back to elites
#YesAllWomen - ANSWER identify the gendered phenomenon of sexual
violence
#SurvivorPrivilege - ANSWER call attention to lasting harms of sexual
violence
, Goals of #survivorprivilege - ANSWER (re)define sexual violence as
criminal/deviant based on negative consequences
De-invisiblize sexual assault and its consequences
#WhyIStayed - ANSWER push back against victim blaming narratives
#TheEmpty Chair - ANSWER call attention to the scale of the problem
- represents all of the victims too scared to come forward about their
assault
- surrounding the Bill Cosby Allegations
#MeToo - ANSWER Grass roots+celebrity power to raise greater visibility
"The personal is political" - ANSWER Carol Hanisch, 1970
"Political"/ "politics" go far beyond elections, parties, and politicians
Notice where politicians/governments try to silence or depoliticize issues
Banet-Weiser and Higgins (2022) - ANSWER Believability is a commodity
- Something that someone "has": can be worked for, secured, lost
- Has its own economy based on identities of victims and perpetrators
example that has a performance of believability - ANSWER unbelievable
Unbelievable (true crime podcast) - ANSWER About a serial rapist: one of his
first victims was a young girl, the police didn't believe her and ended up
charging her for falsely accusing a crime due to inconsistencies in her
responses (they heavily questioned her when she was traumatized)
