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Setting the Scene: Space, Identity, and Sexual Violence

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Unwanted sexual attention within the night-time economy has received relatively little attention to date, particularly in comparison with men’s physical violence in this space. This opening chapter to the first book-length treatment of this issue outlines why a situational approach to understanding sexual violence is necessary and why unwanted sexual attention within pubs and clubs is worthy of detailed attention and analysis. The chapter highlights existing gaps in theoretical and conceptual frameworks of sexual violence that this book aims to address. In particular, there has been a dearth of attention concerning assemblages of space, place, and identity in current theorising on sexual violence. Current theory has portrayed sexual violence in largely heteronormative terms, whereas the author argues for the need to challenge and move beyond such understandings

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    This is, of course, a vast simplification of feminist analyses of the public/private divide, and the role of this distinction in sexual (and other) violence against women. Readers can refer to Boyd (1996, 1997), Coole (2000), Duncan (1996), Pateman (1987), and Russell (1982) for more detailed discussions.

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Fileborn, B. (2016). Setting the Scene: Space, Identity, and Sexual Violence. In: Reclaiming the Night-Time Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58791-6_1

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