The new logic of sexual violence in enlightenment France: rationalizing rape

"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 logi...

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Autor principal: McAlpin, Mary 1960- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
En:Año: 2024
Acceso en línea: Índice
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Sumario:"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. The Enlightenment promotion of human sexuality as natural and desirable required a secularized narrative for how sexual violence against women functioned. Novel bio-medical and historical theories about the "natural" sex act worked to erase the concept of heterosexual rape. McAlpin intervenes in a far-ranging assortment of scholarly disciplines to survey and demonstrate how rape was rationalized: the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, the development of the modern self, the social contractarian tradition, the global eighteenth century, and the libertine tradition in the eighteenth-century novel. This intervention will be essential reading to students and scholars in gender studies, literature, cultural studies, visual studies, and the history of sexuality"--
Notas:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-191, Register
Descripción Física:viii, 193 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:9781032255545
9781032255538