Miranda Horvath - Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking

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The editors and contributors 2009

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First published 2009

ISBN 978-1-84392-520-0 paperback

978-1-84392-519-4 hardback

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Project managed by Deer Park Productions, Tavistock, Devon

Typeset by GCS, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

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Miranda A. H. Horvath and Jennifer M. Brown

Gerd Bohner, Friederike Eyssel, Afroditi Pina, Frank Siebler and G. Tendayi Viki

Roger Giner-Sorolla and Pascale S. Russell

Jenny Kitzinger

Hannah Frith

Jo Lovett and Miranda A. H. Horvath

Aisha Gill

Maddy Coy

Betsy Stanko and Emma Williams

Stephanie OKeeffe, Jennifer M. Brown and Evanthia Lyons

Camille Hamidi

Vanessa E. Munro and Liz Kelly

Barbara Krah and Jennifer Temkin

Jennifer M. Brown and Miranda A. H. Horvath

Miranda and Jennifer would like to thank numerous people without whom this edited collection would not have been possible. This collection emerged out of a series of seminars funded by the British Psychological Society and from which the Sexual Offences Research Initiative was developed. The seminars were lively affairs and we struggled with some contentious issues and were enlivened and challenged by the different disciplinary backgrounds that the seminar participants possessed between them. It really was a privilege to be part of such a committed and inquiring group of people. We would like to thank everyone who took part and especially those who helped to organise the events. We jointly decided that we wished to share our enthusiasm for this project not least because we collectively wanted to contribute to thinking that might just address the justice gap experienced by women who have been sexually assaulted and raped. Several additional authors were approached after the seminars to contribute chapters to this collection and we would like to thank them for being so willing to engage with us in this project. Producing this collection has been a real team effort and we would like to thank all of the contributors for their insights, promptness in producing copy, openness to editorial suggestions and their tireless support for the project. We would also like to thank Brian Willan and his colleagues at Willan Publishing for their assistance and advice with the editing process. We are also grateful to Jo Edward Lewis for his invaluable work preparing the collection for publication. We would like to dedicate this collection to the women who have the courage to come forward and make complaints to the police and the many thousands of women who go unheard and unsupported and have to do the best they can to endure sexual violence.