Rape Myths: History, Individual and Institutional-Level Presence, and Implications for Change

By Katie M. Edwards, Jessica A. Turchik, C. Dardis, Nicole Reynolds, Christine A. Gidycz. 2011

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Subfields: Gender Studies

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Citations in the corpus

• Sorority Women’s and Fraternity Men’s Rape Myth Acceptance and Bystander Intervention Attitudes (2013, unknown): “Although rape myths are false, people often believe them and use these beliefs to justify violence against women (Edwards et al., 2011; Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1994).”
• Pornography and Sexist Attitudes Among Heterosexuals (2013, background): “Second, recent research suggests that greater sexist and related attitudinal adherence may be especially problematic for women in areas related to sexuality, gender equality, and gender roles (Edwards et al., 2011; Sanchez, Fetterolf, & Rudman, 2012).”
• The Relationship between Rape Myths and Sexual Scripts: The Social Construction of Rape (2011, methodology): “Rape scripts research supports several of the rape myths reviewed by Edwards and her colleagues ( Edwards, Turchik, Dardis, Reynolds, & Gidycz, 2011 ), but suggests two additional rape myths (i.e., the myth that men cannot stop once they have started to become sexually aroused and the myth that rapi”
• Victim Blaming Others (2013, background): “The rape culture is created and supported through society’s definition and control of women’s sexuality, defining rape as a crime of sex versus power, upholding traditional gender norms, and creating an environment where rape myths are continually accepted (Edwards et al., 2011).”
• Beyond Surveys and Scales: How Rape Myths Manifest in Sexual Assault Police Records (2017, background): “Police officers may comprise one such group of wellintentioned individuals, because a long-standing, extensive body of research has documented rape endorsement among law enforcement personnel (e.g., see Brown & King, 1998; Campbell & Johnson, 1997; Cook & Lane, 2015; Edwards et al., 2011; Field, 197”