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Reading Rape (edit title/settings)

The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990

by Sabine Sielke (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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SEXUAL VIOLENCE has always been a central issue of feminist debate, whether more implicitly, as in the writing and speeches of nineteenth-century reform movement activists, or explicitly, as in today's rape-crisis discourse.

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  1. Sabine Sielke (Author)

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