Though this can present issues, Mastrontoni contends thats conversations focused around novels with a sound criminological approach, such as Asking For It, would allow students to "better understand the insidious implications of rape representations, and to question their standpoint on rape in a safe, educational environment.
Giulia Mastrontoni has said that novels such as Asking For It present an opportunity to introduce conversations about rape to second level school students. Asking For It is a powerful story about the devastating effects of rape and public shaming, told through the awful experience of a young woman whose life is. When Emma, a popular girl and the queen bee of her secondary school-a character whom O’Neill deliberately portrays as dislikable-is raped by several boys from her hometown, she finds the world she has built crumbling around her as the town turns against her. It is about Emma ODonovan, a nasty, shallow girl from a small Irish town who has in the past encouraged a friend not to bring rape charges to those who. The novel tells the story of Emma O’Donovan, a young woman growing up in a small town in west Cork. It has since been adapted into a play, which in 2018 won the Audience Choice award at the Irish Times Irish Theatre awards. Asking For It was first published in 2015. It won the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year award. Asking For It is a book by Irish author Louise O’Neill that was released in 2015. The Guardian called ONeill 'the best YA fiction writer alive today'.
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