The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990
by
Sabine Sielke
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
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...