A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial - Softcover

Sanday, Peggy Reeves

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520210921 ISBN 13: 9780520210929

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Synopsis

In this bracing study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape, esteemed anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday identifies the sexual stereotypes that continue to obstruct justice and diminish women. Beginning with a harrowing account of the St. John's rape case, Sanday reaches back through British and American landmark rape cases to explain how, with the exception of earliest Colonial times, rape has been a crime notable for placing the woman on trial. A ground-breaking work of scholarship, A Woman Scorned brings a broader perspective to our understanding of acquaintance rape and envisions, finally, a new paradigm for female sexual equality.

About this title

About the Author

Peggy Reeves Sanday is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of five books, including Fraternity Gang Rape (1990), Divine Hunger (1986), and Female Power and Male Dominance (1981).

Reviews

"It never ceases to amaze me that the notion of talking to one's partner about sex instead of just barging ahead strikes so many as preposterous, but thanks to Sanday I have a better understanding of the social and historical forces that lie behind that view. . . . [A Woman Scorned is] a useful guide that measures both how far the anti-rape movement has to go and how far it has already come."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520210921
• ISBN 13: 9780520210929
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338