A Most Detestable Crime
Subtitle: New Philosophical Essays on Rape
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 13, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780195120752
First sentence: Nearly a quarter century ago, Susan Brownmiller published a history of rape that by all indications set many of her readers to thinking about the subject for the first time Rape had to that point been conceived as either pathology (the act of disturbed or diseased man) or deviance (the act of a bad man), both of which portray it as the act of one individual against another.