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The New Logic of Sexual Violence Enlightenment France: Rationalizing Rape
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The New Logic of Sexual Violence Enlightenment France: Rationalizing Rape
Current price: $180.00
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The New Logic of Sexual Violence Enlightenment France: Rationalizing Rape
Current price: $180.00
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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.