Kate Harding
Author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It
About the Author
Kate Harding is the coauthor of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere and a contributor to The Book of Jezebel. A columnist for DAME Magazine, she lives in Minnesota.
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Works by Kate Harding
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It (2015) 296 copies, 13 reviews
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America (2017) — Editor — 220 copies, 10 reviews
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body (2009) 205 copies, 9 reviews
Associated Works
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (2008) — Contributor — 578 copies, 12 reviews
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine… (2020) — Contributor — 71 copies, 2 reviews
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This book is very thoroughly researched--the amount of data and scholarly research cited is truly eye-opening--and provides ample evidence to support its central claim: that our culture does not take rape as seriously as it purports to, and that we need to do better. This point is relentlessly driven home as Harding covers media, cultural myths, the criminal justice system, politicians, and much more.
Though it's well worth reading simply for Harding's detailed handling of the topic, the book ups the ante: after making the claim that we need to do better, Harding then provides concrete suggestions as to how we can do better. She does not simply identify a pervasive, ugly problem (though goodness knows that's important enough); she outlines ways in which we, as a society, can better address that problem. And that, to me, is one of the most valuable things about the book.
Harding's incisive critique paired with her forward-looking approach makes Asking for It a must-read.
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