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Women's silence, men's violence: sexual assault in England, 1770-1845

Anna Clark c1987 © Anna Clark
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  • Women's Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • 1 Introduction: feminist theory in historical perspective (page 1)
  • 2 Women's pain, men's pleasure: rape in the late eighteenth century (page 21)
  • 3 A public shame: rape and eighteenth-century justice (page 46)
  • 4 Silent suffering: law and medicine in the early nineteenth century (page 59)
  • 5 Seduced maidens: middle-class myths, working-class realities (page 76)
  • 6 The daughters of poor men: radical rhetoric, women's experience (page 90)
  • 7 Rape as warning: the genesis of a middle-class myth (page 110)
  • 8 Conclusion: patriarchal myths, feminist challenges (page 128)
  • Appendix I Class status of assailants and victims in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (page 135)
  • Appendix II Relationship of assailant to victim and location of rapes (page 138)
  • Appendix III Statistics on courtship, proximity and rape in the nineteenth century (page 140)
  • Notes (page 143)
  • Select Bibliography (page 168)
  • Index (page 176)
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AHR 94.1 (Feb. 1989): 135 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198902%2994%3A1%3C135%3AWSMVSA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
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