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"It Can Happen to You:" Rape Prevention in the Age of Risk Management
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 2004
- pp. 1-19
- 10.1353/hyp.2004.0054
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay provides a critical analysis of rape prevention since the 1980s. I argue that we must challenge rape prevention's habitual reinforcement of the notion that fear is a woman's best line of defense. I suggest changes that must be made in the anti-rape movement if we are to move past fear. Ultimately, I raise the question of what, if not vague threats and scare tactics, constitutes prevention.