TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The harm of male-on-female rape: a response to David Benatar
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Kelland, Lindsay
SP  - 2775
EP  - 2791
VL  - 29
IS  - 15
N2  - This article attacks David Benatar's claim made in his 2012 book, The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys, that when an individual is the victim of violence it does not matter whether his or her perpetrator is of the same or a different sex. By exploring two related yet distinct phenomena, well documented in the empirical psychological literature, that I call "shattering" and "fragmentation," I argue that when a woman is raped, it does matter that her rapist is male, given that her situation as a woman under patriarchy is partly constitutive of the harm that she suffers.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260514526061
ID  - ref1
ER  -