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Women's silence, men's violence: sexual assault in England, 1770-1845
Anna Clark
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page vii)
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1 Introduction: feminist theory in historical perspective (page 1)
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2 Women's pain, men's pleasure: rape in the late eighteenth century (page 21)
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3 A public shame: rape and eighteenth-century justice (page 46)
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4 Silent suffering: law and medicine in the early nineteenth century (page 59)
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5 Seduced maidens: middle-class myths, working-class realities (page 76)
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6 The daughters of poor men: radical rhetoric, women's experience (page 90)
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7 Rape as warning: the genesis of a middle-class myth (page 110)
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8 Conclusion: patriarchal myths, feminist challenges (page 128)
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Appendix I Class status of assailants and victims in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (page 135)
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Appendix II Relationship of assailant to victim and location of rapes (page 138)
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Appendix III Statistics on courtship, proximity and rape in the nineteenth century (page 140)
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Notes (page 143)
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Select Bibliography (page 168)
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Index (page 176)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 94.1 (Feb. 1989): 135 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198902%2994%3A1%3C135%3AWSMVSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B |
Citable Link
Published: c1987
Publisher: Pandora
- 9780863581038 (paper)
- 9781597403450 (hardcover)