The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France
Mary (University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA) McAlpin
Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781032255545
- ISBN-10
- 1032255544
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Year
- 2025
- Publication date
- 2025-04-14
- Pages
- 194
- Dimensions
- 234x156x
- Weight
- 330