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Matthews’s look at the history of the anti-rape movement and rape crisis centers in the U.S. provides an important lens for understanding the landscape of today’s anti-violence work. Matthews uses Los Angeles in the 1970s-1980s as a case study and examines the work’s origin in many of the social movements of the day, including the second-wave feminism and the Chicano/a movement. Matthews illustrates several tensions that came to shape rape crisis centers and continue to play out in the anti-rape movement: bureaucratic vs. collectivist leadership styles, adversarial vs. collaborative relationships with state institutions such as the police, and rape as an individual psychological trauma vs. rape as a form of gender oppression. A great read for anyone involved in anti-rape work or interested in the evolution of social movements and their relationship with the state.
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