Asking for it: the alarming rise of rape culture--and what we can do about it, paperback/kate harding

Every seven minutes, someone in America commits a rape.

And whether thats a football star, beloved celebrity, elected official, member of the clergy, or just an average Joe (or Joanna), theres probably a community eager to make excuses for that person.

In Asking for It , Kate Harding combines in-depth research with an in-your-face voice to make the case that twenty-first-century America supports rapists more effectively than it supports victims.

Drawing on real-world examples of what feminists call rape culture--from politicos revealing gaffes to institutional failures in higher education and the military--Harding offers ideas and suggestions for how we, as a society, can take sexual violence much more seriously without compromising the rights of the accused.