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`A Kiss is Just a Kiss': Date Rape, Gender and Subjectivity

Wendy Hollway

University of Leeds, UK

Tony Jefferson

University of Keele, UK

In this paper, we problematize the issues of coercion and consent in legal discourse through analysing a British `date rape' court case involving two students. Drawing on the extensive newspaper coverage of the trial, we deconstruct these media accounts, exploring the dominant explanatory frameworks. We propose a reading which combines discursive and psychodynamic analysis in addressing unanswered questions and contradictory evidence. This moves beyond the either/or-ism of guilty and innocent, towards the complex and contradictory gendered identities involved in heterosexual relating in this case. Concluding comments summarize the implications both for a theory of subjectivity and for a contemporary feminist politics of date rape.

Key Words: date rape • deconstruction • discourse • feminism • press report • subjectivity

Sexualities, Vol. 1, No. 4, 405-423 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/136346098001004002
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