num_pages: 298
description: This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in cultures of thinking , reading , and writing . The author rethinks rape, or sexual violence, through a close examination of how rape is a pedagogy that has become canonized in the form of rape stories.
language: English
title: Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan