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A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial Book

According to University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday, half of all women who have been raped are victims of a crime committed by someone they knew. Her book charts America's attitudes towards sex and rape from the time of the Puritans (who Sanday says led spirited sex lives) when the incidence of rape was low; through the 18th century, when the number of rapes rose as masculinity came to be equated with sexual aggression and femininity with passivity; to the present, when male sexual violence is often condoned and juries would rather believe that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," than accept that a woman can be raped by an acquaintance.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape identifies and examines the sexual stereotypes that obstruct justice and considers such topics as the St. John's University rape case and the Violence Against Women Act. Tour.

  • 0385477910
  • 9780385477918
  • Peggy Reeves Sanday
  • Doubleday
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 338
  • 1st Edition.
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