NCJ Number
177978
Date Published
1993
Length
192 pages
Annotation
This book offers insights, testimonies and exercises to help men end the violence in their own lives, intervene to stop other men’s violence and support survivors of rape.
Abstract
The book includes the following nine chapters, with selected sub-headings: (1) Rape: The Personal Tragedy (personal trauma, societal trauma, effects on men); (2) The Culture of Rape (femininity and vulnerability, pro-rape training, rape and racism); (3) Why Men Rape (dating rules/dating roles, man as violator/woman as victim); (4) Men Working to Stop Rape: What Gets in the Way? (men’s anger, male guilt and men’s defensiveness, being hypocritical); (5) Beginning Anti-Rape Work (ending men’s violence in daily life, sharing, the importance of a support network); (6) Men Taking Action; (7) Building, Sustaining, and Maintaining Men Against Rape Groups; (8) Responding to Survivors (crisis intervention, step-by-step listening, rape trauma syndrome); and (9) The Year 2000...and Beyond. The book includes exercises and teaching outlines and a contact list. Notes, figure, bibliography