Boys will be boys : feminist and patriarchal perspectives on sexual violence and masculinity in coverage of the Duke lacrosse rape scandal

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dc.contributor.advisorHarp, Dustin, 1968-
dc.creatorGardner, Elizabeth Louisa, 1980-
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-13T17:31:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:31:38Z
dc.date.available2017-02-13T17:31:33Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:31:38Z
dc.date.issued2007-08
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines how the news media respond when rape allegations first enter the public discourse, as exemplified by local newspaper coverage of the Duke lacrosse rape scandal in the spring of 2006. Guided by the academic literature on feminist and patriarchal understandings of sexual violence and gendered representations in the media, a textual analysis explores how journalists framed and articulated a rape story in its earliest inception and what this coverage reveals about patriarchal and feminist ideologies operating in the public realm. This research demonstrates that feminist voices have fractured the dominant traditional perspective by challenging and re-articulating patriarchal narratives on rape. However, a reluctance to critically examine misogynistic or aggressive male behavior demonstrates the normalized state of sexually violent masculinity and the hegemonic power of patriarchal ideology.en_US
dc.description.departmentJournalismen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2RR1PS0F
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/45645
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subjectRapeen_US
dc.subjectMedia representationsen_US
dc.subjectDuke University lacrosse scandal (2006)en_US
dc.titleBoys will be boys : feminist and patriarchal perspectives on sexual violence and masculinity in coverage of the Duke lacrosse rape scandalen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US

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