Read Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape Online
Authors: Susan Brownmiller
feminist,
8-<),
12, 18, 174-75,
2
53,
2
54·358, 376-78, 385,
396--<)7
historical summary of, 376-80
legal definitions of, 18-30, 174—
175, 368, 377-80
military definition of, ioon
as political act, 8, 211, 218, 248,
306
as political act against women, 9, 396-97
in popular culture media, 290—
308, 309-46
psychoanalytic, 11, 12, 176-79,
2
75-76, 3
1
6-
2
5, 387
and racism, 73-75, 126
ff,
210
ff.
and social class, 182-83, 195 as sex crime, 8
Rape, functions of :
as acquisition of property, 16-18, 35-36, 185, 219, 281, 288,
3
1
9· 376-77
as act of manhood, 14-15, 16,
32
ff.,
178, 290, 291, 312
as adventure, 157, 188, 285
as conquest over women, 14-15, 17-18, 38, 185, 254-56, 283,
2
9°·376, 377
as discipline, 284-86, 289, 298
as economic advantage, 18, 23,
35-36, 92, 162-63, 185,
375
ff.
as entertainment, 286, 289-307,
337-46
as genocide, 236-37
as heroic, 261-63, 290
as humiliation, 38
ff.,
377-78 as intimidation and threat, 15,
17-18, 254-55, 285-86, 288,
377, 397
as power, 209, 256-82
as "recreation," 157
Rape, functions of;
continued
as revenge against other men,
i
7, 32, 56, 293-<)4, 303-05, 376—
377
as reward, 35-36, 92
as seduction, 256, 264, 271 as sexual initiation, 157
as social control mechanism, 285-86, 288
as terror, 37, 41-48, 50
ff.,
85
ff.
as "theft" of virginity, 23, 375
as "trespass," 162-63
as triumph over matriarchy, 283 Rape, kinds of : see Abduction;
Bride capture; Celebrity rape; Child molestation; Child rape; Date rape; Gang rape; Homo sexual rape; Incest; Married rape; Mob rape; "Profession als" rape; Police rape; Statu tory rape
see also
Marriage; Prostitution Rape of Belgium,
32,
41, 44, 310—
311
Rape of Constantinople, 31,
3
5 Rape of the Hun, 310
"Rape-lie" myth, 228
ff.,
244,
2 56
ff.,
271, 278n, 369-70
see also
"Cry-rape" myth; Myths and misconceptions
Rape murder, 106, 107, 122, 126,
151, 197-201, 312
accidental, 206-o7 statistics on, 197-<)8
Rape of Nanking, 57-6t Rape of the Sabines,
34,
289
Rape speak-outs, in women's move ment, 3 58, 396-97
Rapist(s):
age of, 176, 182
anonymity of, 88 arrest records of, 182
misconceptions of, 11, 76, 182,
183
466
I
INDEX
Rapist(s),
continued
and occupation, 184 prison studies of, 207-08
profiles of, 19()-()4, 199-207,
208-09, 292
ff.
and race, 176, 181, 183 as "shock trooper," 209 and social class, 180
ff.
as "thief," 18
"typical," 174, 176, 180-85,
2o7-09, 35
1
see also
Gang rape; Heroic rapist;
Soldier rapist
Rashomon
(film), 304, 305 Rather, Dan, 9rn
Rawdon, Francis, 117
Read, James, M., 47, 48
"Reage, Pauline," 323
Reed, John, 300
Reforms, legal, suggested, 386-96, 400-01
Reich, Wilhelm, 12
Reles, Abe, 300
Religion, and ideology of rape, 318, 3
1
9·328-32, 4°
2
Religious rape, 31, 36
Reluctant Rapist, The
(Bullins), 3o7
Reporting rape:
see
Documenta
tion; Evidence; Statistics; Testimony; Victims
Reproduction, male control over, 17-18, 153-56, 219, 376
Reputation, of victim:
correlated with rape experience, 124
and denials of rape, 228-29
in law, 212, 220-21, 230-34,
237-38, 240-41, 369, 37
1
-72,
385
Resistance, of victim:
kinds of, 39-40, 63, 68-69, 104,
161-62, 164-65, 207, 355-58,
401-05
Resistance, of victim,
continued
as legal concept, 369, 372-73,
385
Revolutions, rape in, 114-21, 132—
139
see also
individual entries Rich, Adrienne, 3
34
Richard, Keith, 296
Richard II, King of England,
34
Robbery, compared to rape: offender profiles, 184, 185
rules of
law
in, 379, 383, 384 statistics on, 175· 213
Robbins, Harold, 301, 306 Rock-and-roll, lyrics of sexual
abuse, 295-97
Roller, Lulu, 281 Rolling Stones, 295 ff. Rowan, Carl, 242, 243
Rowlandson, Mary, 140-41
Rush, Florence, 277, 280
Russian Army, 32, 66-72
Russian Revolution, 121-22 Ryan, Cornelius, 66
ff.
Sabine women, rape of, 34, 289
Sackville, George, 38
Sadism, 50-51, 6o--6i, 90, 193,
263
Sadomasochism, 263-64, 318 St. Augustine,
see
Augustine St. Francis Indians, 141 Saints, rape of, 330-32 Salisbury, Harrison, 73n
Sanctuary
(Faulkner), 195 Sand Creek Massacre, 144-45,
151-52
San Quentin Prison, 208
Sartre, Jean Paul, 124, 251, 26i—
262
Schomburg Center for Research, 212
Schuyler, Philippa, 137-38 Scottish Highland Wars, 38-40
Scottsboro Case, 210, 212, 230-34,
260
Seduction, 22, 23, 142, 264, 271,
275-76, 283, 400-01
Seduction of the Innocent
(Wertham), 342
Selby, Hubert, 194
Self-defense, women's, 14, 401-04
Sentencing, discriminatory, 216,
220
see also
Penalties
Serenelli, Alessandro, 330-31
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(Law rence), 264
"Sex drive" myth, and rape, 178-179
Sex Offenders
(Gebhard), 179n,
280-81
Sex Offenses
(Guttmacher), 178
Sex and Racism in America
(Hern ton), 249
Sexual abuse:
see
Child molesta
tion; Harassment; Humilia tion; Mutilation; Rape; Sadism; Sodomy; Statutory Rape
Sexual abuse of children, 272-85
see also
Child molestation; Child rape; Children, abuse and rape of; Incest; Statutory rape
Sexual assault:
see
Child molesta
tion; Harrassment; Incest; Rape; Sodomy; Statutory rape
Sexu(ll Behavior in the H uman
Female
(Kinsey), 276, 277
Sexual Behavior in the Human M ale
(Kinsey), 276
Sexual fantasies:
see
Fantasies Sexual humiliation:
see
Humila
tion, sexual Sexuality, female:
biological facts of, 3 conditioning for, 309-46 misconceptions of, psychoanalytic, 315-26
Sexuality, female,
continued see also
Victim behavior;
Women
Sexual mutilation:
see
Mutilation, sexual
Sexual Offender and His Offenses, The
(Karpman), 178
Sexual Revolution, The
(Reich), 12 Shapiro, Meyer, 300
Shulman, Irving, 297
Sihanouk, Prince, 89
Sing Sing Prison, rapists in, 207 Sioux Indians, 143, 144, 145
Sitting Bull
(Vestal), 144 "Slave girl," concept, 70
Slave labor, 33, 35, 133, 153
ff.
see also
Slavery, American Slave revolts, 217
Slavery, American, and rape, 153—
173
black resistance to, 161-62, 164—
165, 217
as control over reproduction,
i53-54
no concept of criminality in,
162-64
racist-sexist dilemma, origins in, 210, 217
ff.,
255
see also
Black women; Interracial
rape
Slave trade, 154-55, 168-70
Slave Trading in the Old South
(Bancroft), i69 Smith, Joseph, 125, 126 Social class:
see
Class
Socialism, concepts of rape in, 11-12
see also
Communism; Commu nist Party, U.S.
Sociology, and study of rape, 179-86
Sodomy, as charge, 76, 1oon, 196,
264, 378
Soldier rapist, 31, 32, 35-36, 49, '
468
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INDEX
Soldier rapist,
continued
71-73, 87
ff.,
97--<)8, 101-04,
117
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 72
Songs, popular, and lyrics of sexual abuse, 295--<)7, 336
Soul on Ice
(Cleaver), 248, 251
South
of
Freedom
(Rowan), 243 South Vietnamese Army, 87-88,
89
Southwestern states, frequency of
violence in, 185
Spatial patterns of·rape, 185-86 Speck, Richard, 293, 361
Speer, Albert, 49
Spirit Lake Massacre, 143
:italin, Joseph, 71 Statistics, of rape:
approaches to interpreting, 174 arrests and convictions, 370, 372
in Bangladesh, 79, 80, 81
and black crime, 213-16
in child molestation, lack of,
2
76-79
FBI, 213-16
in gang rape, lack of, 187 in interracial rape, 214-16
methods of gathering, 174-75, 180
ff.
in Philadelphia study, 182-86 in prison rape, 264, 266
in rape-murder, 197--<)8 and reporting of rape, 175
variables used in, 174, 180, 184,
348-61
in Vietnam, 98-101
in World War 11, U.S., 76--78 Statutes of Westminster, 29-30,
382
Statutory rape:
as charge, 29, 77
military definition of, 1oon penalties for, 382-83
rules of law for, 370-71, 382-83
statistics on, 175
Story
of
0
("Reage"), 323
Strachey, Lytton, 263
Stranger rape, 184-85, 351-52,
366, 374, 398
Straw
Dogs (film), 302
Streetcar Named Desire, A
(Williams), 304n Styron, William, 217 Suburbs, rise of rape in, 185
Suffrage movement, and lynching, 225
Suicide, as consequence of rape,
)4,
68, 75, 84, 328, 329, 332
Sullivan, Victoria, 302, 303
Summa Theologiae
(Aquinas),
3
2
9
Superstar
(Viva), 273, 326