Against Our Will: Men, Women and RapeDIVDIVSusan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today/divDIV Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable “spoil of war,” used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications./divDIV It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to “blame the victim,” and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States./divDIV Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages./divDIV Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance./divDIV/div/div |
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... ravished virgin. But one manner of redemption was possible. As a benevolent way of saving him from terrible death, a raped virgin might be permitted by King and Church to accept her ravisher in marriage. Since consolidation of property ...
... ravished virgin. But one manner of redemption was possible. As a benevolent way of saving him from terrible death, a raped virgin might be permitted by King and Church to accept her ravisher in marriage. Since consolidation of property ...
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... ravished “a married woman, dame or damsel” without her consent was guilty of a full-blown felony under the law of the Crown, and the penalty was death.* It read better on parchment than it worked in real life, but the concept of rape as ...
... ravished “a married woman, dame or damsel” without her consent was guilty of a full-blown felony under the law of the Crown, and the penalty was death.* It read better on parchment than it worked in real life, but the concept of rape as ...
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... ravished made pacts not to lie with their husbands until nine months were passed . " Which resolution , ” said the Laird of Glenmoriston , thinking of Isobel Macdonald and one other , " the husbands agreed to . But they happened luckily ...
... ravished made pacts not to lie with their husbands until nine months were passed . " Which resolution , ” said the Laird of Glenmoriston , thinking of Isobel Macdonald and one other , " the husbands agreed to . But they happened luckily ...
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... ravished a girl or two . " At least one Highland woman got her revenge , Prebble records : " In Appin a young girl , whose cow had been shot by a soldier , killed him with a stone when he attempted to rape her . The body was buried ...
... ravished a girl or two . " At least one Highland woman got her revenge , Prebble records : " In Appin a young girl , whose cow had been shot by a soldier , killed him with a stone when he attempted to rape her . The body was buried ...
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... ravished by the enemy , yields a secret satisfaction to a host of vicarious ravishers on the other side of the border . " Lasswell's Freudian analysis is a revealing glimpse of the male mentality . ( It could hardly apply to the ...
... ravished by the enemy , yields a secret satisfaction to a host of vicarious ravishers on the other side of the border . " Lasswell's Freudian analysis is a revealing glimpse of the male mentality . ( It could hardly apply to the ...
Contents
World War II | |
Riots Pogroms and Revolutions | |
Two Studies in American History | |
A Question of Race | |
Institution and Authority | |
The Myth of the Heroic Rapist | |
The Setting | |
The Crime | |
Women Fight Back | |
About the Author | |
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