Kate Harding has been writing popular feminist rants for internet audiences since 2007, most notably at Salon’s “Broadsheet” blog, her own body acceptance blog, “Shapely Prose” (KateHarding.net), and Jezebel.com. She’s also the co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce With Your Body (Perigee, 2009), a major contributor to the forthcoming Book of Jezebel (Grand Central, 2013), and an essayist who’s been published in several anthologies, including Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (Seal, 2008). Kate recently started a new Tumblr blog, “Don’t Get Raped: Practical Advice for Young Ladies and Other Violable Persons” (victimblaming.tumblr.com), which uses news items about sexual assault to catalog the many situations women (and men, and children) would have to avoid in order to fully protect themselves against the threat of rape. She lives in Chicago.
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It
by Kate Harding
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- ISBN-13: 9780738217024
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Publication date: 08/25/2015
- Pages: 272
- Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest. Congressman Todd Akin’s “legitimate” gaffe. The alleged rape crew of Steubenville, Ohio. Sexual violence has been so prominent in recent years that the feminist term “rape culture” has finally entered the mainstream. But what, exactly, is it? And how do we change it?
In Asking for It, Kate Harding answers those questions in the same blunt, bullshit-free voice that’s made her a powerhouse feminist blogger. Combining in-depth research with practical knowledge, Asking for It makes the case that twenty-first century America—where it’s estimated that out of every 100 rapes only 5 result in felony convictions—supports rapists more effectively than victims. Harding offers ideas and suggestions for addressing how we as a culture can take rape much more seriously without compromising the rights of the accused.
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Chicago Reader, 1/2/15
“[Harding] has an amazing capacity for transforming her outrage into clear, considered arguments.”