The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France: Rationalizing Rape

ISBN-13: 9781032255538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

USA) McAlpin Mary (University of Tennessee Knoxville

Opis

This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a women’s non-consent a logical impossibility.

O autorze

Mary McAlpin is Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.