Read Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape Online
Authors: Susan Brownmiller
modern dictums stated, 311-13 in parables and fairy tales, 309—
310
in popular literature, 313-15 and propaganda of rape, 310-11 of rapist as solitary, 182
of "resistance provokes murder," 206, 207
of "sex drive," 178-79, 179n
of sexual intercourse as normally painful, 316-17
of "typical" rapists, 176, 182,
183
of "vengeful" woman, 22, 228—
229, 245, 313, 370
Nakayama, Yasuto, 61 Nanking, Rape of, 57-6i
Nanking International Relief Com mittee, 57
Narrative of the Capture of Cer
tain Americans at Westmore land ,
A, 141
462
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INDEX
National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, 223-25, 227, 254
National Commission on the
Causes and Prevention of Violence, 186, 197, 214, 351,
354-55
Nationalism, and rape, 126-31,
132 ff.
Nat Turner Rebellion, 217 Neighborhood, as victim-offender
locus, 182, 184, 185-86, 349
New Guinea, rape in, 284-86 Newspapers and magazines,
accounts of rape in:
"advice to victims," 398-<)9, 403 and American Indian wars, 140,
i46-47
in American Revolution, 116-119
in American slavery, 155-60
in Belgian Congo revolution, i32,
1
38-39
of captivities, 140
and heroic rapists, 293 ff.
and interracial rape, 7-8, 211,
213, 236-39, 219, 241-43,
2
5
2
-53
of police rape, 269
and prison rape, 258-60, 268 and tabloid journalism, 337-41 in war, 57, 64, 79-80, 84, 89-<)o,
101-04
see also
Documentation of rape; Propaganda
New York City Rape Analysis Squad, 197, 366
New York Radical Feminists, 358,
4°5
Nez Perce Indians, 152-53
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 48 Nightingale, Florence, 36n Nin, Anai's, 326-27
Nonvirgins, rape of, and criminal justice, 26, 28-30
Nonvirgins, rape of,
continued
see also
Married women; Nuns; Prostitutes
Northup, Solomon, 158-59 North Vietnamese Army, 90 Nugum culture, 284
Nuns, rape and abuse of, 29, 37, 68, 132, 137
Nuremberg Race Laws (1935), 51
Nuremberg Trials, 54-55
Origin
of
the Family, The
(Engels), 12
Our Lady of the Flowers
(Genet), 263
Ovid, 289
Ownership, concept of, origins through subjugation of women, 17-18, 24
see also
Marriage; Property;
Slavery
Painter, Sidney, 27, 37
Pair i:ape, 187, 188
see also
Gang rape
Pakistani Army, and Bangladesh, 32, 78-86
Parker, Mack Charles, 246
Paternity, 156, 167-68 Patriarchy:
control over women and chil dren, 17, 281
origins of, in protection against rape, 17-18
and triumph over matriarchy, 283-84
Patterns in Forcible Rape
(Amir),
180
ff.
see also
Amir, Menachem Patterson, Haywood, 2
34,
260
ff.
see also
Scottsboro case
Patton, George S., 31, 73, 92, 93 Paul VI, Pope, 332
Pawlowicz, Sala, 51-52
Peckinpah, Samuel, 302
Pederasty, 196
see also
Sodomy Penalties for rape:
in American Revolution,
119
in American slavery, 218-19
contemporary, 216, 234-35,
37<]-83
and discriminatory sentencing,
215-16, 234-35
in early law, 18-30
and lesser charges, 76-77 military, 76, ioon, 9()-()1, 98-101
Pentagon Papers, The,
86 Perrault, Charles, 292
Perry, Eleanor, 306 Philadelphia study,
see
Amir,
Menachem Phillips, Ulrich B., 218 Pius XII, Pope, 63, 331
Plains Indians, 144, 285
Planned rape, historic origins of, 14 statistics, 183-84, 187
see also
Gang rape
Plath, Sylvia, 327
Poetry, victim models in, 306,
335-36
Pogroms, and rape, 121-24
Police:
bias against victims, 364-68 statistics on rape, 174-76, 214—
216
studies of rape, 214-16
Police rape, 268-71, 366
Pollock, Frederick, 25, 28
Pontiac's War (1764), 142 Pornography:
as anti-female propaganda, 394-396
feminist analysis of, 390, 392-96
and heroic rapist, 288
and homosexual rape, 263 master-slave fantasy in, 169-70 and war, 82, 288
INDEX
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Potiphar's wife, legend of, 22, 228,
37°
Power:
beginnings of, in male protection of women against rape, 17, 128
and class politics in rape, 252-53 and fascism, 49
in military, 32-33 psychoanalytic concepts of, 76
see also
Ideology of rape; Mascu-
linity; Property; Slavery; War Prebble, John, 38-39
Pregnancy, as consequence of rape,
16, 39, 45, 79-80, 81, 84, 279,
283, 284
see also
Breeder women Prehistory, and origins of rape, 14-
15
President's Commission on Ob
scenity and Pornography, 393,
395
Press:
see
Newspapers and magazines
Price, Flora Ellen, testimony of, 145
ff.
Price, Victoria, and Scottsboro
case, 230
ff.
Prison, studies of rapists in, 207-209, 257-58
Prisoners, women as, 90, 267-68
Prison rape, 2 57-68
hierarchy in, 260-61, 272 "womanizing" of victims, 260—
268
Private property, origins of, in sub jugation of women, 17-18
see also
Children; Marriage;
Property; Women "Professionals" rape, 2 56, 271 Promiscuity, correlated to experi
ence of forcible rape, 124
see also
Reputation Propaganda, rape as:
functions of, 114, 139
and lynching, 223-26
464
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Propaganda, rape as,
continued
and pornography, 394-96
and racism, 132, 235-37, 240-42
in war, 40-58, 53, 65-66, 69-72,
86-87, 310-11, 332
see also
Documentation; Heroic rapist; Ideology of rape; Newspapers and magazines; Statistics
Propaganda Technique in the World War
(Lasswell), 44
Property, women as, 16, 17, 18,
35-36, 185, 219, 281, 288,
3i9, 376-77
Prostitution:
in American slavery, 163, 168—
169
compared to rape, 76, 390
as consequence of child molestation, 279n
feminist analysis of, 390-92
in Middle Ages, 27-28, 29
by men in prison, 261, 267 and police rape, 366 unknown among American
Indians, 142
in war, 35n-36n, 63-64, 75-76,
82-83, 92--(}7, 332-33
see also
Brothels; Concubinage;
Reputation Psychoanalysis:
blind to reality of rape, 11, 12, 187
and misconceptions of child
molestation, 275-76
and misconceptions of female sexuality, 308, 315-25, 327,
333, 387
and misconceptions of rape,
176-79, 22<)-30
Psychology of Women
(Deutsch),
229-30, 316
Psychopathia Sexualis
(Krafft
Ebing),
il
Psycho rapist, 176
"Psywar," and rape in Vietnam, 86-87
Puzo, Mario, 305n
Rabbit Redux (Updike), 313 Race:
and rape, 73-75, 80-81, 126-31,
i32-39,
21
0-55, i40-15o,
1
50-53, 349, 366-67
ofrapists, 176, 180
see also
American Indian women; Black women; Chinese women; Jewish women; Women
Race defilement, 51
see also
Miscegenation Racism:
and rape, 73-75, 126-39, 210—
255
and sexism, 210
ff.,
255
Rahman, Mujibur, 78, 83
Rais, Gilles de, 292, 293 Rand, Ayn, 313
ff.
Randsdell, Hollace, 2
33
Rank, Otto, 327
"Rapacious maiden" myth, 22-23, 30
Rape:
see
Criminal rape; Culture;
Power; Slavery; Victims; War; Women
Rape, concepts in history of : act has a history, 12, 17, 404
beginnings of, 13-15, 16 biological possibility of, 13-14,
388
black insurrectionary, 248
ff.,
306
as crime against property, 18, 23,
162, 185; 375
as crime against women, 8--(}, 24,
i85, 396-97
criminological, 178
ff.
Rape, concepts in history of,
continued