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Ruiter, Teun (2021)

Variations on a Theme of Misogyny: Understanding the Role of the Rape Acceptance Myth In Understanding India's Perspective on Sexual Violence

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

This thesis examined whether the attitude of Indian society towards sexual violence has actually changed since the gruesome rape case in 2012. This is tested through the media discourse analysis on three significant cases and hybrid analysis of past research on rape myth acceptance amongst students. This thesis finds that the attitudes have in fact not changed since the case in 2012, and then propose a potential cultural factor of passiveness as a reason for this lack of significant change in attitude. The thesis goes on to discuss differences between attitudes and demographical parameters such as caste and gender but has limited assumptions to make due to a limited dataset.

Sexual Violence

Rape Myths

India

Author

Ruiter, Teun

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

South-& Southeast Asia

Supervisors

Blezer, H.B

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en