Rape The History of a Crime

From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Cultural critic Mithu Sanyal is picking up where Susan Brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book Against Our Will. In fact, she argues that the way we understand rape hasn't changed since then, even as the world has changed beyond recognition. She contends that it is high time for a new and informed debate about rape, sexual boundaries and consent.

Sanyal argues that the way we as a society understand rape tells us not just how we understand sexual violence, but how we understand sex, sexuality, and gender itself. For instance, why is it so hard to imagine men as victims of rape? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? When we think of rapists, why do we still think of strangers in dark alleys, rather than uncles, husbands, priests, or boyfriends?

The book examines the role of race and the trope of the black rapist, the omission of male victims, and what we mean when we talk about rape culture. She provocatively takes every received opinion we have about rape, and turns it inside out - arguing with liberals, conservatives, feminists and sexists alike.

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Mithu Sanyal

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An essential book for our times by a writer at the height of her powers. Gripping, informed and accessible, this will be an instant feminist classic. Laurie Penny, author of Unspeakable Things

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mithu Sanyal
• Con la collaborazione di: Mithu Sanyal (Traduzione)
• Editore: Verso
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 23.03.2019
• Categoria: Saggistica
• EAN: 9781786637505
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-750-5
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Categorie: Sexueller Missbrauch, Gewalt, Feminismus, Politikwissenschaft, Sexualität, Kulturanthropologie, Missbrauch, Essays, Sex, Kulturwissenschaften, Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte, Sex und Sexualität, soziale Aspekte, Gender, Häusliche Gewalt, Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, Sexueller Missbrauch und Belästigung, Ethnic Studies, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, History, Culture, Sociology, Feminism, Feminist, Society, Cultural Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Science, Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie, Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, Frauenbewegung / Feminismus, Gesellschaft / Familie, Frau, Sexualität, Soziologie / Familie, Jugend, Alter, Sexualität / Missbrauch, Kind / Missbrauch, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 21st Century, Social Engineering, Sexual abuse & harassment, Sociology: sexual relations, domestic violence, Feminist Theory, Sexual abuse and harassment, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Domestic abuse, Human Evolution, Women's History Month, Homosapiens, books for women, history books, women in history, Feminist books, science books, feminist gifts, feminism books, good books for women, feminist thought, sociology books, anthropology books, Historical nonfiction, feminist book, self love books for women