Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success
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Are RCCs Feminist Organizations? Are RCCs Feminist Organizations?
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Defining Feminism Defining Feminism
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Rejecting Feminism Rejecting Feminism
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“That’s really not our message” “That’s really not our message”
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Embracing the State? Embracing the State?
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Where to Go from Here? Where to Go from Here?
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Fleeing from Feminism: The Troubled Legacy of Rape Law Reform
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Published:07 January 2013
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the divisive role of feminism in anti-rape work. Despite the desire of scholars to claim rape crisis centers (RCCs) as feminist organizations, rape care advocates clearly reject feminism as a way to describe themselves or the work that they do. It shows how the entanglement of RCCs with criminal justice institutions produce a climate in which advocates are sanctioned for calling themselves feminists, and rewarded for distancing themselves from confrontational or public tactics that law enforcement actors associate with feminist activism. The success of feminist groups in transforming rape law in turn transformed these groups. The difficulty of maintaining a feminist orientation is not just the result of movement institutionalization, but reflects the considerable power exerted by state actors over rape care services—power that flows from choices feminist anti-rape reformers made in the 1970s.
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