Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (104 page)

( 380)
convicted rapists serve an average of forty-four months: U.S. Depart ment of Justice,
National
Prisoner
Statistics:
Prisoners Released from State and Federal Institutions,
1960,
Figure B.

( 380)
"A husband cannot be guilty": Matthew Hale, History
of
the
Pleas of
the
Crown, Philadelphia: R. H. Small,
1847,
Vol. I, p.
628.

( 381)
"The incident was really of no great moment": John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, New York: Scribner's,
1922,
pp.
245-246.

( 382 )
marital rape in criminal codes of Sweden, Denmark, etc.: Ernst Livneh, "On Rape and the Sanctity of Matrimony," Israel Law Re
view,
Vol.
2,
No. 3 (July
1967),
pp.
415-422.

(382 )
certain countries equate economic threats with physical threats: Rich ard C. Donnelly, "The New Yugoslav Criminal Code,"
Yale
Law Journal, Vol. 61 (Apr.
1952) ,
pp.
527-528.

( 382 )
penalties for statutory rape, incest and sodomy: Isabel Drummond, The
Sex
Paradox:
An
Anal ytic
Survey of
Sex
and the Law
in
the
United
States Today, New York: Putnam,
1953,
pp.
347-351.

( 38
5 ) assailant displays a weapon in one-fif th of police-founded cases: Menachem Amir, Patterns
in
Forcible Rape, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1971,
p.
153.

( 3
88)
women police officers as effective as men: "Women Effective on

SOURCE NOTES
I
447

Police Patrol, Men Differ Little on Job, Capital Survey Shows," New York Times, May 21, 1974, p. 38.

( 388) women police officers do not resort to unnecessary force: "The

Women in Blue," Time, May 1, 1972, p. 60.

( 392 ) "no adequate data to prove the truth or falsity": Alfred C. Kinsey et
al .,
Sexual
Behavior in
the
H uman
Male, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1948, p. 608.

( 392 ) others still trying although evidence still suggested: See R. N. Barber, "Prostitution and the Increasing Number of Convictions for Rape in Queensland,"
Australian
and
New
Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (19 ) , pp. 169-174; Charles Winick and Paul M. Kinsie, The
Lively
Commerce: Prostitution
in
the
United
States, Chicago: Quadrangle, 1971, p. 224.

( 393 ) pornography geared to male heterosexual market:
The
Report of The
Commission
on Obscenity and Pornography, Washington: U.S. Gov ernment Printing Office, Sept. 1970, pp. 15-i.6.

( 393) "predominantly white, middle-class": The Report of The Commis sion,
p.
2i.

( 393) "familiar and firmly established": The Report of The Commission,

P.·
114.

( 393) 'Because pornography historically": The Report of The Commission,

p. 115. '

( 393 ) ". . . bolsters masculine esteem": The Report of The Commission,

P.·
201.

( 393) 'Males report being more highly aroused": The Report of The Commission, p. 175·

( 394) Kinsey on arousal and disgust: The Report of The Commission,

p.
167.

( 395) majority report on relationship between pornography and rape: The Report of The Commission, pp. 217-242. For minority report, see

P.P·
562-582.

( 398) 'Many break the most elementary rules": Clinton T. Duffy with Al

Hirshberg, Sex and Crime, New York: Doubleday, 1965, pp. 128-130. ( 399) "Don't broadcast the fact": Carl T. Rowan and David M. Mazie, "The Terrible Trauma of Rape," The Reader's
Digest,
Mar. 1974,

p. 204.

  1. Nun raped in convent: "Man Convicted of Raping Nun, 63," New York Times, Feb. 1, 1975, p. 3i.

  2. case for a strong mind in a strong body argued by Susan B. Anthony: The Revolution (New York ) , Vol. 1, No.
    2
    (Jan. 15, 1868), p. 17;

Vol. 1, No. 13 (Apr. 2, 1868), p. 194·

(402 ) ". . . you shall cut off her hand": Deuteronomy 25:11-12.

INDEX

Abduction, of women, 17, 33, 34,

83-84, 117, 120, 140-41, 286,

287, 290

Abolitionists, against sexual abuse of black women, 156, 160-69

Abortion, as consequence of rape, 54, 64, 84, 85, 86, 137

Abrahamsen, David (study by), 179

Abuse, sexual:
see
Child molesta tion; Harassment; Incest; Mutilation; Rape; Sadism; Sodomy; Statutory rape

Abzug, Bella, 243-45

Adler, Alfred, 11 Adoption, and rape, 84

Adultery, in law, 19, 124, 156, 131
Adventurers, The
(Robbins), 301 Age:

of consent, 370-71, 382, 383

of rape victims, 55-56, 58, 60,

75, 82, 123, 174
ff.,
272-73,

347-49

of rapists, 176, i 82

Aggression:
see
Masculinity; Rape; Violence; War

Alcohol, and rape, 183, 184

Alexius, Emperor, 35

Allied Armies, 65
ff.,
73-78

see also
Russian Army; U.S. Army

Ambassador M orgenthau's
Story

(Morgenthau), i22n

Amboy Dukes, The
(Shulman),

2
97

American Army:
see
U.S. Army

American Civil Liberties Union, 233
ff.,
390-91, 392

American Civil War, low-rape

reports of, 88 American Indian women:

bonds with white women captives, i 50

rape of, 140, 150-53 American Revolution, rape in,

31-'32, 115-121

American slavery:
see
Slavery, American

American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
(Weld), 165

Ames, Jessie Daniel, 224
ff.

Amir, Menachem, 180-88, 196,

214, 215, 272, 355, 357-58,

360-61, 385

Amsterdam, Anthony, 215

Anatomy, human, and origins of rape, 13-15, 16

Andrew the Chaplain, 290 Angelou, Maya, 273-75

Animal species, sexual behavior in,

12-13

Annan, Noel, 294 Anthony, Susan B., 401

Anthropology, cross-cultural studies of rape, 284-88

Anti-Semite
and Jew
(Sartre), 124 Apache Indians, 151

Aptheker, Herbert, 210-11

Aquinas, Thomas,
329

Arapesh culture, 284

Armenian women, rape of, 122n Arnett, Peter, 87--98

Arrest records, from police

precincts, 174-76

Art, rape portrayed in, 311 Articles of War (Richard
II), 34
Assault:

as charge, 76

compared with rape, 76, 3
77
military definition of, ioon offender profiles in, 184-85 rules of law for, 379, 384

statistics on, 175, 198 Association of Southern Women

for the Prevention of Lynch ing, 224-32

Assyrians, ancient, retaliation for

rape among, 20

Atrocity propaganda, 47-48 Attempted rape, statistics on, 17
5,

355-58

Augustine, Saint, 34, 328-29

Avengers, The
(TV program), 337

Baby Doll
(film), 304

Babylonian
law,
and rape, 18-19 Bailey, F. Lee, 205

Ball, Charles, 157, 162 Balzac, Honore de, 312

INDEX
I
449

Bancroft, Frederic, 169

Bangladesh, rape in, 40, 78-86 Baraka, Imamu Amiri:
see
Jones,

LeRoi Bastardy suits, 164

Bates, Ruby, and Scottsboro case, 23off.

Battle-camp trophy, women as, 3 3,

35

Battle of Culloden, 38-40

Baudouin, King of Belgium, 133 "Beautiful victim," myth of, 310—

311, 327, 333-4
1

Behel, August, 12

Bednarik, Karl, 70, 71

Belgian Congo, rape and revolution, in, 132-39

Belgium, rape in World War
I,
32,

4
1
• 44, 3
1
0-
11

Bell, Quentin, 273

Bible, 19-23, 33, 319· 328, 386-87,

402

see
also
Hebrew law; Religion

Biology, and origins of rape, 13-15

Birth of a Nation
(film), 128, 222

Black Book of Polish
f
ewry,
p

Black men:

in crime statistics, 181, 213-26 discriminatory sentencing of,

215-16

and interracial rape, 128, 210 ff.

and intraracial rape, 181, 183

lynching of, 212, 213 role of, in slavery, 154

see
also
Slavery, American Blacks:
see
Black men; Black

women

Black Skin, White M asks
(Fanon), 250

Blackstone, William, 24

Black women:

in American slavery, 126
ff.,

153 ff.,
211,
214

bias against, in rape cases, 175, 214

450
I
INDEX

Black women,
continued

as "breeders," 154-56 compared to black man, as

victim, i57, 212-13

and contempt of black male for, 250-51

economic roles of, 153-57

and mob rape, 126-31

and reporting of rape, 175, 214

resistance to rape, 161-62, 164—

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