ABSTRACT
Anita Hill's intervention established sexual harassment as a recognizable category of social violence, a development that unleashed sociopolitical forces far beyond the constituencies of women, feminists, or even victims of sexual harassment. It is particularly necessary for feminists, in the wake of "1991, a year defined by date-rape trials, harassment hearings, and gender wars," to find ways that secure greater currency for vocabularies that women are developing to describe themselves, and their locations in the sociopolitical landscape. In producing a reconfiguration of rape it is necessary to politicize the sites in which such acts of violence occur. The anti-date rape campus movement has shown a particular ability to perform several of the functions contained within the outlines of visibility paradigm. While Ross's readings have been useful, it seems to that Scott's terms are more ideologically congruent with the activists' problematic. Ross's language anticipates certain hostility, asserting as he does that the "newfound visibility" render radical groups a "potentially vulnerable target."
