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Telling a Rape Joke: Performing Humor in a Victim Help Center
Title:
Telling a Rape Joke: Performing Humor in a Victim Help Center
Author:
Candela, Angela M., author.
ISBN:
9780355982480
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Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (90 pages)
General Note:
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Mariaelena Bartesaghi Committee members: Keith Berry; Christopher McRae.
Abstract:
This study examines the function of humor as a discourse in discussion of sexual battery. In this study, I examine the ways sexual battery, consent, and victimization are social constructed. Humor is a form of discourse where individuals are allowed to speak more freely about taboo topics, including that of sexual battery. I examine humor within presentations given from a Victim Help Center. Using field notes, slides, videos, and audio-recordings, I analyze instances of humor within the presentations. I analyze the data multimodally, in order to provide a richer, qualitative analysis. In this thesis, I argue that humor observed in the presentations worked to perform power, mask face-threatening acts, enable metaphors, and, essentially authorize accounts of sexual battery. I argue that victim must be performed in a specific way, which is deemed by the university and other state laws on sexual battery, in order to be seriously considered. I believe that this study can contributes to the examination of broader notions of victimization and can work to examine spaces where victim-blaming occur.
Local Note:
School code: 0206
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Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
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| XX(689312.1) | 689312-1001 | Proquest E-Thesis Collection | Searching... |
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