Talk:Rape and Representation

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Not sure how to reedit this page so it is not original research, but feel that some of the points made may be relevent to the entry on rape culture - any suggestions? Croftscv 18:59, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

You can edit Rape culture or Rape yourself. The Rape article is well-written and has survived many edits, so to add something there and have it stay you'll generally have to write something better than what's already there. Merging Rape and Representation into Rape culture might work. --John Nagle 19:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, now I see what went wrong. Rape and Representation is a published book. ISBN 023107266X. The problem is that you never said it was a book. Without that, everyone thought it was an essay title. The article should have started "Rape and Representation is a book by (authors) which ...". Then all would have been clear. Rework the article as a book article (look up some major book as a style guide) and all will be well. Wikipedia gets context problems like this all the time, usually from popular culture references. Thanks. --John Nagle 22:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] book article

Not sure if this is a book article as it's referring to an number of different published books? I've tried to expand the ref to Higgins and Silver. Croftscv 17:21, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Reformatted the article as a standard Wikipedia book article, with book cover and citation. --John Nagle 21:02, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV Check: balanced sources

This article needs balanced sources that show all sides of rape representation versus just male-female rape representation from feminist POV. We need criticisms such as contained in the Female Thing or BitchFest to balance feminist political perspectives. We need perspectives from male [1] and female victims of female rapists...along with perspectives from male victims of male rapists. Otherwise this is a just a reverse-sexist feminist propaganda piece. (drop in editor)