Mary Mcalpin

The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France

Rationalizing Rape

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a women's non-consent a logical impossibility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781032255538
• ISBN-10: 1032255536
• Artikelnr.: 66746474

Autorenporträt

Mary McAlpin is Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Rise of the Modern Self and the Erasure of Female Sexual
Autonomy
Part I. Naturalizing Coquetry: The Scientific Argument for Female Sexual
Duplicity
Introduction
1. Uterine Furors: Vitalist Neo-Humoralism and the Impossibility of
Non-consent
2. D'Alembert's Wet Dream: The Gendered Hygiene of Nocturnal Emission
Part II. Historicizing Modesty: Female Sexuality in the State of Nature
Introduction
3. Rousseau's Natural Woman: On the Origin and Foundations of Sexual
Inequality
4. Rape in Paradise: Tahiti and the (Hetero)Sexual Imperative
Part III. In the Moment: Rape, Libertinage, and the Eighteenth-Century
Novel
Introduction
5. Erasing Rape in Riccoboni: The Story of Miss Jenny Montfort
6. Sexual Violence in Laclos: Consent and the Virtuous Swoon
Afterword The Enduring Legacy of an Enlightenment Narrative