Against Rape
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Girouz
Published: 1974
Format: Paperback; Hardcover
Table of contents: title: Against Rape is a feminist classic, one of the three books published in 1974 that opened the subject of rape to a general audience. It remained in print for 18 years and has been used in many rape crisis centers and women's studies classes. Thompson co-authored it with Andra Medea, founder of Chimera, Inc., a women's self-defense program that was based on both martial arts moves and street-wise strategies. The focus of the book was to analyze the causes and patterns of rape in order to a) reduce its power in the minds and lives of women; b) enable women and men to begin to change a society that engendered it; and c) help women avoid and/or survive the trauma of rape. It is now out of print but, because it was so widely sold, it is usually available from used books stores and online.