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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus [Paperback]

Peggy Reeves Sanday
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1 Mar 2007
This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, Peggy Reeves Sanday reconstructs daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and degrading, often grotesque, initiation and hazing rituals. In a substantial new introduction and afterword, Sanday updates the incidences of fraternity gang rape on college campuses today, highlighting such recent cases as that of Duke University and others in the headlines. Sanday also explores the nature of hazing at sororities on campus and how Greek life in general contributes to a culture which promotes the exploitation and sexual degradation of women on campus. More broadly, Sanday examines the nature of campus life today and the possibility of creating a rape-free campus culture.


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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: New York University Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Mar 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0814740383
  • ISBN-13: 978-0814740385
  • Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 1.6 x 22.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,523,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A classic. Fraternity Gang Rape is a fascinating analysis of how all-male groups such as fraternities or athletic teams may create a rape culture where behavior occurs that few individuals acting alone would perpetrate. The new introduction and afterword shed light on how this pernicious problem continues today, insightfully illuminating the complicity of society in the failure of accountability for acquaintance rape." Mary P. Koss, co-editor of No Safe Haven: Male Violence Against Women at Home, at Work, and in the Community Praise for the First Edition: "A powerful and important book." Contemporary Psychology "Full of insights ... an important contribution ... written in accessible prose and ideal for course use." Women's Review of Books "Powerfully moving and analytically provocative... If the college or university at which AJS readers teach has a fraternity or sorority system, this book will be useful in understanding the way those organizations not only construct the gender relations between women and men on campus but also provide a map of male domination that members can take with them for the rest of their lives." Michael S. Kimmel, American Journal of Sociology "Sanday draws a chilling picture of fraternity society, its debasement of women and the way it creates a looking-glass world in which gang rape can be considered normal behavior and the pressure of group-think is powerful." The Philadelphia Inquirer "An important book [that] should be read by everyone in higher education - faculty, administrators, and students." Contemporary Sociology "Very accessible...Sanday's book explores the vulnerability of college women, and of young men seeking to prove their manhood. I read it on vacation. My daughter has just turned 12. I told her I wanted her to read it before she goes to college." Judy Mann, The Washington Post "Chilling." The Miami Herald "In her well-regarded text, Sanday points out how frequently athletes are involved in group sexual misconduct against women." The New York Times "Told with boldness and clarity, and drawing on insight from other cultures, this is one of the best books on rape and male socialization in several years." Feminist Bookstore News "A rare and valuable book: deeply illuminating and yet unbearably painful." Andrea Dworkin "Enlightening and provocative." West Coast Review of Books

About the Author

Peggy Reeves Sanday is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of many books, including A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial and, most recently, Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy.

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4.0 out of 5 stars So true 27 Dec 2000
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Well, to start with I would like to point out that all you need to do is see which gender reviews this with few stars and which give it a better star rating. Makes you think! But I am not supprised one bit. That aside, I say this book has some very good references and is very true and hits the mark. Gang rape is all too real and all too common in universities and colleges. This I say because I AM A SURVIVIOR OF GANG RAPE! No one who hasn't been through it will ever understand how this feels. Even women who have not had the misforune of experiencing rape themselves, but this book does go a long way to helping people understand a little more.

This book I borrowed from my local library and shall consider adding to my collection of books regarding the violent crime of rape.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and thorough 9 Nov 1998
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While Fraternity members may cry unfair and try to claim the same status as those subjected to racism, the book is a thorough and fair assessment of what happens within Fraternity walls.
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Sanday is one of the few researchers with the guts to expose the dark side of the American worship of fraternities and athletes. This American obsession runs so deep and has been unquestioned for so long it's no wonder her research angers those in a position of privilege (think Citadel, think Tailhook). Check out Bernard Lefkowitz's more recent OUR GUYS for a male journalist's take on the same culture of privilege. It's time for people to quit shielding campus thugs in the name of letting boys be boys. There ARE colleges where fraternities and sororities don't exist, and those of us who went there still made friends, contributed to the community, and had rich social lives. And we also had far fewer rapes.
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