ACLS Humanities E-Book: Women's silence, men's violence: sexual assault in England, 1770-1845

Women's silence, men's violence: sexual assault in England, 1770-1845

Clark, Anna.

Year: c1987.

Publisher: Pandora.

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Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: feminist theory in historical perspective

2 Women's pain, men's pleasure: rape in the late eighteenth century

3 A public shame: rape and eighteenth-century justice

4 Silent suffering: law and medicine in the early nineteenth century

5 Seduced maidens: middle-class myths, working-class realities

6 The daughters of poor men: radical rhetoric, women's experience

7 Rape as warning: the genesis of a middle-class myth

8 Conclusion: patriarchal myths, feminist challenges

Appendix I Class status of assailants and victims in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Appendix II Relationship of assailant to victim and location of rapes

Appendix III Statistics on courtship, proximity and rape in the nineteenth century

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Title:

Women's silence, men's violence : sexual assault in England, 1770-1845 Anna Clark.

Author:

Clark, Anna

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2008
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Women's silence, men's violence : sexual assault in England, 1770-1845 Anna Clark.
Clark, Anna
London: Pandora, c1987.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04354

Subject Headings:

• Rape -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Rape -- England -- History -- 18th century
• England -- Moral conditions

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