Table of Contents
- 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)