Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus » (2nd Edition)

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.

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.

Booknews

Reeves (psych, U. of Penn.) presents case studies of rape--usually the victim is drunk or high on drugs. The work ends with details of frat initiations demonstrating the inculcation of sexist and brutish attitudes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Introduction to the Second Edition     1
Foreword   Judge Lois G. Forer     23
Introduction to the First Edition     33
Acknowledgments     49
The XYZ Express
Campus Party Culture     53
The XYZ Express     66
Rape or "She Asked for It"?     83
Other Victims, Other Campuses     108
Phallocentrism, Male Power, and Silencing the Feminine
"Working a Yes Out": Fraternity Sexual Discourse     129
The Initiation Ritual: A Model for Life     148
The Law of the Brothers     165
Constructing a Sexist Subjectivity     180
Afterword: 2006-Has Anything Changed?     198
Bibliography     237
Index     243
About the Author     254