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Campus Sex, Campus Security (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
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About Campus Sex, Campus Security
Review "Doyle is witty, sharp, and empathetic, moving deftly from the infamous Rolling Stone story about rape at the University of Virginia, to Ronald Reagan's attack on the state-university system as governor of California, to the racial profiling of students. Her book [reveals] the problems in our systems for dealing with rape, and what stories those systems tell themselves." - Bookforum"[Doyle] challenges readers to see abuses of power as forms of sexism on college campuses, and to imagine a more open campus community."--Publisher's Weekly"Understanding campus sexual norms and policies as a part of broader security cultures and the business of the university itself crucially reframes the question of what to do about sexual assault and harassment on campus. Doyle's account positions us to ask questions about sex, desire, reasonableness, and believability that aren't automatically parsed from larger social realities on and off campus, where feminists already organize as a part of Black Lives Matter, Students for Justice in Palestine, blockades against deportations and imprisonment, and campaigns for gender-neutral bathrooms." -- Academe"Forget exaggerated stories about free speech under attack on campus. If you want to know the university today, Doyle's book is the place to start. Beginning with the problem of sexual assault on campus, the book links into racial profiling, the Occupy movement and the arid sexuality of college sports pack-culture. The real power of Doyle's work comes from her sharp blend of non-fiction, autobiography and philosophy: this is not a compilation of complaints, but a razor-sharp analysis of administrators attempting to implement good intentions when faced with the divergent and radical energies of youth, power, sex and violence." -- Stuff"[Campus Sex/Campus Security] smartly connects campus rape and campus policing through a critique of the construction of the (corporatized) university as Safe Place, in which the rape victim becomes 'the engine of administrative trouble[:] risk itself.'" --Feministing Product Description A clear-eyed critique of collegiate jurisprudence, as the process of administering student protests and sexual-assault complaints rolls along a Möbius strip of shifting legality.The management of sexuality has been sewn into the campus. Sex has its own administrative unit. It is a bureaucratic progression.—from Campus Sex, Campus SecurityThe psychic life of the university campus is ugly. The idyllic green quad is framed by paranoid cops and an anxious risk-management team. A student is beaten, another is soaked with pepper spray. A professor is thrown to the ground and arrested, charged with felony assault. As the campus is fiscally strip-mined, the country is seized by a crisis of conscience: the student makes headlines now as rape victim and rapist. An administrator writes a report. The crisis is managed.Campus Sex, Campus Security is Jennifer Doyle's clear-eyed critique of collegiate jurisprudence, in the era of campus corporatization, “less-lethal” weaponry, ubiquitous rape discourse, and litigious anxiety. Today's university administrator rides a wave of institutional insecurity, as the process of administering student protests and sexual-assault complaints rolls along a Möbius strip of shifting legality. One thing (a crime) flips into another (a violation) and back again. On campus, the criminal and civil converge, usually in the form of a hearing that mimics the rituals of a military court, with its secret committees and secret reports, and its sanctions and appeals.What is the university campus in this world? Who is it for? What sort of psychic space does it simultaneously produce and police? What is it that we want, really, when we call campus security? About the Author Jennifer Doyle is the author of Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013) and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2006). She is Professor of E
