TY - JOUR
T1 - SlutWalk as perifeminist response to rape logic
T2 - the politics of reclaiming a name
AU - Hill, Annie
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - Questions about the meaning and value of SlutWalk have generated considerable public debate. This article explores how SlutWalk subverts rape logic, rendering it apparent and absurd while circulating counterclaims to oppose sexual violence. By reclaiming “slut” through performative protest and political mobilization, SlutWalk offers trenchant critiques of rape logic's conflation of clothes and consent. Although media and feminist commentators alike met this protest strategy with skepticism, I argue that SlutWalk enacts a perifeminist response to rape logic that demonstrates the subversive power of reclaiming a name.
AB - Questions about the meaning and value of SlutWalk have generated considerable public debate. This article explores how SlutWalk subverts rape logic, rendering it apparent and absurd while circulating counterclaims to oppose sexual violence. By reclaiming “slut” through performative protest and political mobilization, SlutWalk offers trenchant critiques of rape logic's conflation of clothes and consent. Although media and feminist commentators alike met this protest strategy with skepticism, I argue that SlutWalk enacts a perifeminist response to rape logic that demonstrates the subversive power of reclaiming a name.
KW - SlutWalk
KW - feminism
KW - perifeminist response
KW - rape logic
KW - victim blaming
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U2 - 10.1080/14791420.2015.1091940
DO - 10.1080/14791420.2015.1091940
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84959516786
SN - 1479-1420
VL - 13
SP - 23
EP - 39
JO - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
JF - Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
IS - 1
ER -
