Daniel F. Hobbs, Susan Brownmiller
The author shows why she considers rape not to be just a brutal crime but a reflection of how our society is conditioned. To do this she traces the use and meaning of rape from Biblical times through to Bangladesh and Vietnam, unravels the origins of rape laws in medieval codes and examines interrac...
Dorothy Q. Thomas, Regan E. Ralph
RAPEINWAR: CHALLENGING. THE TRADITION OF IMPUNITY Dorothy Q Thomas and Regan E. Ralph rveports of rape in die former Yugoslavia have brought much deserved and long overdue international attention to the issue ofrape in war. This attention has highlighted die abusive character ofwartime rape, but it ...
Marlene Epp
Although contemporary studies of sexual violence against women are becoming more prevalent, until recently, historians have given sUght treatment to the topic of rape. Even less examined is the issue of wartime rape, although media exposA©s of widespread rape in the Bosnian conflict have similarly h...