Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990

by SabineSielke (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $48.56

  Examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. This book argues that the representation of rape has been a major force in the cultural construction of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and indeed national identity.