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New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France - Rationalizing Rape

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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.

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Introduction: The Rise of the Modern Self and the Erasure of Female Sexual Autonomy
Part I. Naturalizing Coquetry: The Scientific Argument for Female Sexual Duplicity
Introduction
1. Uterine Furors: Vitalist Neo-Humoralism and the Impossibility of Non-consent
2. D'Alembert's Wet Dream: The Gendered Hygiene of Nocturnal Emission
Part II. Historicizing Modesty: Female Sexuality in the State of Nature
Introduction
3. Rousseau's Natural Woman: On the Origin and Foundations of Sexual Inequality
4. Rape in Paradise: Tahiti and the (Hetero)Sexual Imperative
Part III. In the Moment: Rape, Libertinage, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Introduction
5. Erasing Rape in Riccoboni: The Story of Miss Jenny Montfort
6. Sexual Violence in Laclos: Consent and the Virtuous Swoon
Afterword The Enduring Legacy of an Enlightenment Narrative


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

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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.

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