Abstract
![CDATA[This paper analyses the ideological elements of the moral panic about 'ethnic gang rape' in Sydney over 2001-2002, following a series of group sexual assaults in western Sydney in 2000 for which a number of a group of young Lebanese-Australian men were convicted. The interwoven ideological threads of the moral panic involve common-sense 'orientalism' of the Arab/Muslim Other's masculinity as deviant, immoral and dangerous; it is racialised and criminalised. These contradictory racist themes include: Lebanese/Muslim men's purported disrespect of women in general; Lebanese/Muslim men being allegedly brought up to regard 'White', 'Western', 'Caucasian', etc, women as 'sluts' and thus 'fair game'; 'ethnic gang rape' as an expression of anti-'Aussie', anti-White, anti-Western hatred which is supposedly encouraged in Muslim communities at large; Muslim and 'Third-World' cultures as barbaric, uncivilised, violent and misogynistic in their law and their morality; condemnation of laxity and indulgence in the Australian legal and political system towards transgressors and calls to mete out 'their own medicine'.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | TASA 2003 Conference Proceedings : New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas : Sociology Today and Tomorrow, University of New England, Armidale, 4-6 December, 2003 |
Publisher | Australian Sociological Association |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780646429274 |
ISBN (Print) | 0646429272 |
Publication status | Published - 2003 |
Event | Australian Sociological Association. Conference - Duration: 26 Nov 2012 → … |
Conference
Conference | Australian Sociological Association. Conference |
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Period | 26/11/12 → … |
Keywords
- gang rape
- ethics
- ethnic relations
- crime
- culture
- Sydney (N.S.W.)
- Australia
- urban living
- Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
- culture conflict
- New South Wales
- multiculturalism
- Centre for Western Sydney