| Edition |
First Ballantine Books edition. |
| Description |
472 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1975. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-447) and index. |
| Contents |
A personal statement -- The mass psychology of rape: an introduction -- In the beginning was the law -- War. World War I ; World War II ; Bangladesh ; Vietnam -- Riots, pogroms and revolutions. The American Revolution ; Pogroms ; The Mormon persecutions ; Mob violence against Blacks: the KKK -- Mob violence against Whites: the Congo -- Two stories in American history. Indians ; Slavery ; Addendum: The cliometricians -- The police-blotter rapist. Pairs, groups and gangs ; "Gratuitous acts, extravagant defilements" ; Rape-murder -- A question of race -- Power, institution and authority. Prison rape: the homosexual experience ; Police rape ; The sexual abuse of children -- The myth of the heroic rapist -- Victims: the setting. The conscious rape fantasy ; The beautiful victim ; "Blonde ex-showgirl slain in hotel suite" ; Confessions: "He made me do it!" -- Victims: the crime -- Women fight back. |
| Summary |
This book stands as a unique document of the history, politics and sociology of rape and the inherent and ungrained inequality of men and women under the law. |
| Subject |
Rape.
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| ISBN |
0449908208 |
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9780449908204 |
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9781439504901 Paw Prints |
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