Reading rape : the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /

Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebel...

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Main Author: Sielke, Sabine, 1959-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002
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