Rape : sex, violence, history / Joanna Bourke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourke, Joanna.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape.

Physical Description:

viii, 565 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Emeryville, CA] : Shoemaker & Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2007]

Summary:

Joanna Bourke takes the issue of rape out from the academic ghettos and distills the truth so often exploited to sell newspapers. Neither prurient nor overly sympathetic, she investigates rape from a historical standpoint examining the history of sexual aggression, the idea of rape as a social construct, and the often-ignored idea of embodiment, and analyzes the physical response of rapists as well as the often-cited " rape is about power" theories. Indebted to a growing body of sophisticated feminist analyses about rape victims, Bourke here shifts the emphasis from the victims to the perpetrators in order to place rapists in their historical context. An invaluable study, this book delivers the hard truth that if we are to imagine a world free of unwanted sexual violence, then we must consider the issue of rape from every angle.

Contents:

Introduction

Sexed bodies

Rape myths

'No' means 'Yes'

Rapacious bodies

Brutalizing environments

The knife (and other invasive therapies)

The couch (and other interior therapies)

Female perpetrators, male victims

Exhibitionists

Sexual psychopaths

The home

The prison

The military

Getting away with rape

Violence, politics, erotics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [511]-549) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781593761141

1593761147

OCLC:

104873265

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