TY - JOUR
T1 - Appropriating the rights of women : moral panics, victims and exclusionary agendas in domestic and cross-borders sex crimes
AU - Dagistanli, Selda
AU - Milivojevic, Sanja
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this article we focus on moral panic driven publicity and policy surrounding female victims of sexual assault and sex trafficking in Australian and international contexts. The case studies comprise a series of racialised gang rapes in Sydney, Australia between 2000 and 2004, and anti-sex trafficking campaigns around major sporting events including the 2006 World Cup in Germany and 2012 London Olympics. While heightened public awareness around the sexual victimisation of women is welcome, we also critique the sort of attention that these cases and their victims receive, questioning whether increased publicity and knee-jerk policies around certain sex crimes is genuinely based on the realities of women's victimisation. We seek to demonstrate that moral panic driven attention for victims neither eases their suffering nor necessarily bolsters their rights while interrogating who does come to benefit from such “feminist” causes, and how we should begin to re-think our engagement with women's victimisation.
AB - In this article we focus on moral panic driven publicity and policy surrounding female victims of sexual assault and sex trafficking in Australian and international contexts. The case studies comprise a series of racialised gang rapes in Sydney, Australia between 2000 and 2004, and anti-sex trafficking campaigns around major sporting events including the 2006 World Cup in Germany and 2012 London Olympics. While heightened public awareness around the sexual victimisation of women is welcome, we also critique the sort of attention that these cases and their victims receive, questioning whether increased publicity and knee-jerk policies around certain sex crimes is genuinely based on the realities of women's victimisation. We seek to demonstrate that moral panic driven attention for victims neither eases their suffering nor necessarily bolsters their rights while interrogating who does come to benefit from such “feminist” causes, and how we should begin to re-think our engagement with women's victimisation.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/533268
U2 - 10.1016/j.wsif.2013.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.wsif.2013.09.001
M3 - Article
SN - 0277-5395
VL - 40
SP - 230
EP - 242
JO - Women’s Studies International Forum
JF - Women’s Studies International Forum
ER -