Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 by Sabine Sielke

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

Sabine Sielke

256 pages paperback 2001

2 editions

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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 cul...

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