Read Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape Online
Authors: Susan Brownmiller
Sutherland, Sandra (study by), 2 53
Szulc, Tad, 252
Tabloid journalism, 337-41
Tapirape culture, 286, 287
Tasadays, 17
Taylor, Recy, case of, 236 Television, women as vjctims in,
336--37, 38
1
, 389, 396
Terror, rape as, 32, 37, 41-48,
50
ff.,
8s,
86,
12
5
as subjective standard in victim behavior, legal concept of, 369
Testimonx, of rape victims:
in American Indian wars, 140-142
of black women in race riots,
126
ff.
in Congo, 133-36, 13'8
contemporary, 347-74
as evidence in court, 36-74
in World War I, 41-48
in World War II, 50-63, 65-78
Thelwell, Mike, 217
Therapist rape, 256, 271
Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States
(NAACP), 223
Thompson, Hunter, 297
ff.
Three Came
Home (Keith), 62 Tiger, Lionel, 187
Tijerina, Patsy, 301 Tijerina, Reis Lopez, 301
Time on the Cross
(Fogel and Engerman), 170--73
Till, Emmett, 210, 245-48
Tokyo International Military Tribunal, 56, 58-62
To
Secure These Rights,
227 Totila, 34, 35
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 40
ff.
Trials, rape:
compared to robbery and assault, 377-78, 383-84
and consent, 382-87
and corroboration, 391 and credibility of victim, 220--
221, 368-74
discriminatory sentencing in, 216
early historical, 18-30
interracial, 210, 211, 213, 230,
2
39·
2
45
and reputation of victim, 230--
238, 385-86
rules
of
evidence in, 370--74 and threat of force, 383-85
see also
Conviction; Jury; Law; Penalties; Statistics; individual cases and trials
Trojan War, rape in, 33 Trotta, Liz, 79n
Troyes, Chretien de, 290, 291 Tuchman, Barbara, 4m Turner, Nat, 217
Twenty-seven Wagons Full
of
Cotton
(Williams), 304
Two Women (film), 73-74, 306
"Typical" rapist, 17
4,
176, 180--85,
2
07--09, 35
1
"Typical" victim, 348-49
see also
Victim(s); Victim Be havior
INDEX
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Uniform Code of Military Justice, 32,
lOOn
Uniform Crime
Reports (FBI),
174, 175, 180, 187> 213, 350,
35
2
• 372, 387
United States Air Force, court-martial statistics, 99, 100 United States Army:
in American Indian wars, 144, 146, 151-52
court-martial statistics ( Korea ),
99
court-martial statistics (Vietnam), 37n, 9B-99
court-martial statistics (World War II), 76, 77, 78
and prostitution in Vietnam,
9
2
-97
in Vietnam, 92-114
in World War II, 73, 75-78 United States Marine Corps
court-martial statistics, 100--01 and prostitution in Vietnam, 94,
96
United States Navy, court-martial statistics, 100--01
Updike, John, 313
Ute Indians, 145-50
Van Buren, Abigail, 271
Venereal disease, and rape, 39, 46,
4· 94-<)7' 36
"Vengeful woman" myth, 22, 228—
229•
2
45· 3
1
3· 370
Vestal, Stanley, 144
Victim(s), 309-46, 347-74
bias of jury against, 175, 373-74 bias of police against, 364-68 black woman vs. black man as,
212-13
and black women as slaves, 218 fear of, in reporting rape, 175
as "heroines," 78,
So,
91, 327,
333-36
470
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Victim(s),
continued
and institutionalized rape, 256—
257
male portrayal of, 327-44 mass rejection of, 50, 86
in movies, 302-06, 333-36 past relationships of, 80 in pornography, 293-94 portrayed in confession
magazines, 341-46
portrayed in tabloid journalism, 337-4
1
psychoanalytic concepts of, 175—
177
and relationship to rapist, 351
reputation of, 180, 220-21
resistances to rape of, 39-40, 63,
68-69, 104, 355-58
"typical," myth of, 348
see also
Credibility; Corrobora tion; Myths and misconcep tions; Reputation; Resistance; Women
Victim behavior, 309-46, 347-74
in act of rape, 355-58
after rape, 361-64
before rape, 355
concept of victim precipitation and, 353-55
as culturally conditioned, 309-46
legal concepts of, 385-86 resistance, 184, 355-57, 361-64,
385
terror as subjective, 387 Victorian era, rape in, 294 Vietcong, low-rape report among,
90, 92
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 108-12
Vietnam War, 37n, 86-u 3 Violence:
and class, 180-81
concept of subculture of, 180-81 correlation with increased rape
statistics, 17
5
Violence,
continued
and male bonding, 193-<)4 portrayed in comic books, 342 and prison rape, 267
statistics, 351
Virgin(s), rape of, 18-19, 20, 23,
2
4-
2
7. 329
Virginity:
cultural importance of, 318-19 requirement in marriage, 319,
377
"theft" of, 281
see also
Chastity
Virgin martyrs, legends of, 328-33
Viridiana
(film), 302n Viva, 273, 326
Vorse, Mary Heaton, 2 33
Vulnerability, of female: anatomical, 13-14
and anonymity of rapist, 209
as "feminine" role model, 333-336
Wagley, Charles, 286 War, rape in, 31-114
ancient, 21
attitude of aggressor nation, 37 attitude of conquered nation, 38 as military reprisal, 32, 56
as "normal," 33, i88 outlaw of,
32,
34-35 penalties for, 76, 1oon
as socially acceptable, 33, 88 as terror, 37
ff.
see also
Rape, functions of;
specific armies, revolutions, wars
War
As
I
Knew
It
(Patton), 31,
73
War of 1812, and rape, 3 5-36
Warsaw Ghetto, 52-53
Wars of Religion (France), and rape, 36
Washington, George, 31, 119
Washington study, see Hayman, Charles
Wayne, Anthony, 117
Willie McGee Case, 210, 239-45 Weapons, legal concept of rape
and, 184, 186, 357-58, 364,
366, 379, 385
Webb, Kate, 91-92
We Charge Genocide
(petition by Civil Rights Congress to U.N.), 236, 270
Weld, Theodore, 165-66
Wertham, Fredric, 342
West, Nathanael, 289 Westmoreland, William C., 95 White, Walter, 227
White River Massacre, 146-50 White River Ute Commission Investigation, 145
ff.
Wife beating, in feudal era, 27 Wife stealing,
33,
34, 376 Wigmore, John Henry, 370
Will, as legal concept in criminal rape, 369
William the Conqueror, 25
Williams, Leonard, 1
3
Williams, Tennessee, 304
Wilson, Colin, 29
5
Winter Soldier Investigation, 108 Wolfgang, Marvin E., 180-81
184n, 215
Women, and history of rape: analogy with Jews, 48-50
as "battle-camp" trophy, 33, 35
black-white bonds, 160
cultural conditioning of, 309-46 depictions of, in slavery, 217,
222-23
early historical legal concepts of, 16-30
as enemy, in war, 64-65
excluded from law enforcement, 387-88
facts on physical "survivorship"
of, 336
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Women, and history of rape,
continued
fear of rape, in prehistory, 14-15 "femininity" and role as victim,
3o9 ff., 332 ff., 336 ff.
and inheritance laws, 24, 219
in matriarchy, 283, 284
in matrilineal society, 141
in military (Vietcong), 90-91 oppression of regardless of race,
131
as political prisoners, 90
as property, 16-18, 35-36, 185,
219, 281, 28 319, 370,
376-77
role of, in interracial rape, 228, 229
sexual mutilation of, in war,
38-40
as slave labor, 33, 35
see also
American Indian women; Black women; Chinese women; Female bonding; Feminism; Jewish women; Victim(s)
Women's movement:
on child-molestation legislation, 383
and female bonding, 194
pitted against black movement,
2
54
against rape, 175, 190, 254,
337n, 352, 358, 364-65, 380,
397-4o4
against sadomasochism as reactionary, 263
and self-defense, 401-04
and suffrage movement, 22 5
and Vietnam, 112-13 Women's rights:
in American South, 219-20
in contemporary America, 355-404
in early Jewish society, 23
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Women's rights,
continued
and participation in Jaw enforce ment, 388-89
and Statutes of Westminster,
29-30
Women Under Socialism
(Bebel),
12
Woolf, Virginia,
273
WorJd War I:
rape propaganda in, 40-41, 43—
48, 310-11
rape as weapon of terror in,
32,
40-43
see also
German Army
WorJd War II:
rape propaganda in, 310-11 rape as weapon of revenge in,
32, 48-78