Your Media Rape Culture Syllabus
It’s hard to explain to people exactly what Rape Culture is, let alone how it is perpetuated in media and entertainment. These conversations are difficult to have as it is, without adding an additional cultural element. These books, films, and videos are a good primer for the less woke family member or friend, or just recommended reading and viewing for the life-long learner. So of course, I would rather you start with my talk. So here you go if you haven’t seen it already:
The following are books, articles, videos, etc that I watched during the research and writing phase of my talk. With a few gems added that I read or watched recently.
For an AMAZING playlist of TED Talks, some of my favorite feminist YouTubers, and some gems from Last Week Tonight, Full Frontal and The Daily Show, check my playlist here. And for the one really good Daily Show Video that wasn’t on YouTube, click here.
For downloads of some of the academic pieces I read (for educational use only) click here.
And Now for the books:
Asking For It by Kate Harding
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
We Believe You by Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino
Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
The Hunting Ground by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (Documentary & Book)
Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett
Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TEDTalk/Book)
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Yes Means Yes! edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Rape is Rape: How Denial, Distortion, and Victim Blaming are Fueling a Hidden Acquaintance Rape Crisis by Jody Raphael
He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti
Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich
SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence by Katie Cappiello, Meg McInerney, Jennifer Baumgardner
Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema by Sophie Mayer
Transforming a Rape Culture — Emilie Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher and Martha Roth
The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
Book by Stephen Apkon
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Black N Blue Boys/Broken Men by Dael Orlandersmith
The Unslut Project (Book/Documentary)
The UnSlut column for Teen Vogue by Emily Lindin
Webseries
FCK YES by Seed&Spark
The Movies — Most of Which Are on Netflix (Yay!)
Aforementioned — The Hunting Ground
The Mask You Live In
Miss Representation
Audrie & Daisy
Trapped
The Invisible War
It Happened Here
The Unslut Project
An Open Secret
