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Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present |
09 Oct 2007 |
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 The renowned historian Joanna Bourke analyses the phenomenon of rape.
Rape is a subject that generations of feminists have written about. Perhaps the most famous was Susan Brownmiller in her 1975 polemic Against Our Will, in which she wrote that rape is "nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear". Now, the renowned historian Joanna Bourke has written Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present in which she argues that to view rape as being only about power is to neglect the inescapably sexual nature of the attack. Whereas previous feminists have understandably focussed on the experience of the victim of rape, rather than the motivation of the perpetrator, Joanna Bourke sets out in this book to look instead at the figure of the rapist. Who is he and why does he commit this particular act?
Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present by Joanna Bourke is published by Virago ISBN 9781844081547Rape Crisis
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