Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (109 page)

feminist,
8-<),
12, 18, 174-75,

2
53,
2
54·358, 376-78, 385,

396--<)7

historical summary of, 376-80

legal definitions of, 18-30, 174—

175, 368, 377-80

military definition of, ioon

as political act, 8, 211, 218, 248,

306

as political act against women, 9, 396-97

in popular culture media, 290—

308, 309-46

psychoanalytic, 11, 12, 176-79,

2
75-76, 3
1
6-
2
5, 387

and racism, 73-75, 126
ff,
210
ff.

and social class, 182-83, 195 as sex crime, 8

Rape, functions of :

as acquisition of property, 16-18, 35-36, 185, 219, 281, 288,

3
1
9· 376-77

as act of manhood, 14-15, 16,

32
ff.,
178, 290, 291, 312

as adventure, 157, 188, 285

as conquest over women, 14-15, 17-18, 38, 185, 254-56, 283,

2
9°·376, 377

as discipline, 284-86, 289, 298

as economic advantage, 18, 23,

35-36, 92, 162-63, 185,

375
ff.

as entertainment, 286, 289-307,

337-46

as genocide, 236-37

as heroic, 261-63, 290

as humiliation, 38
ff.,
377-78 as intimidation and threat, 15,

17-18, 254-55, 285-86, 288,

377, 397

as power, 209, 256-82

as "recreation," 157

Rape, functions of;
continued

as revenge against other men,
i
7, 32, 56, 293-<)4, 303-05, 376—

377

as reward, 35-36, 92

as seduction, 256, 264, 271 as sexual initiation, 157

as social control mechanism, 285-86, 288

as terror, 37, 41-48, 50
ff.,
85
ff.

as "theft" of virginity, 23, 375

as "trespass," 162-63

as triumph over matriarchy, 283 Rape, kinds of : see Abduction;

Bride capture; Celebrity rape; Child molestation; Child rape; Date rape; Gang rape; Homo sexual rape; Incest; Married rape; Mob rape; "Profession als" rape; Police rape; Statu tory rape

see also
Marriage; Prostitution Rape of Belgium,
32,
41, 44, 310—

311

Rape of Constantinople, 31,
3
5 Rape of the Hun, 310

"Rape-lie" myth, 228
ff.,
244,

2 56
ff.,
271, 278n, 369-70

see also
"Cry-rape" myth; Myths and misconceptions

Rape murder, 106, 107, 122, 126,

151, 197-201, 312

accidental, 206-o7 statistics on, 197-<)8

Rape of Nanking, 57-6t Rape of the Sabines,
34,
289

Rape speak-outs, in women's move ment, 3 58, 396-97

Rapist(s):

age of, 176, 182

anonymity of, 88 arrest records of, 182

misconceptions of, 11, 76, 182,

183

466
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Rapist(s),
continued

and occupation, 184 prison studies of, 207-08

profiles of, 19()-()4, 199-207,

208-09, 292
ff.

and race, 176, 181, 183 as "shock trooper," 209 and social class, 180
ff.
as "thief," 18

"typical," 174, 176, 180-85,

2o7-09, 35
1

see also
Gang rape; Heroic rapist;

Soldier rapist
Rashomon
(film), 304, 305 Rather, Dan, 9rn

Rawdon, Francis, 117

Read, James, M., 47, 48

"Reage, Pauline," 323

Reed, John, 300

Reforms, legal, suggested, 386-96, 400-01

Reich, Wilhelm, 12

Reles, Abe, 300

Religion, and ideology of rape, 318, 3
1
9·328-32, 4°
2

Religious rape, 31, 36

Reluctant Rapist, The
(Bullins), 3o7

Reporting rape:
see
Documenta

tion; Evidence; Statistics; Testimony; Victims

Reproduction, male control over, 17-18, 153-56, 219, 376

Reputation, of victim:

correlated with rape experience, 124

and denials of rape, 228-29

in law, 212, 220-21, 230-34,

237-38, 240-41, 369, 37
1
-72,

385

Resistance, of victim:

kinds of, 39-40, 63, 68-69, 104,

161-62, 164-65, 207, 355-58,

401-05

Resistance, of victim,
continued

as legal concept, 369, 372-73,

385

Revolutions, rape in, 114-21, 132—

139

see also
individual entries Rich, Adrienne, 3
34

Richard, Keith, 296

Richard II, King of England,
34

Robbery, compared to rape: offender profiles, 184, 185

rules of
law
in, 379, 383, 384 statistics on, 175· 213

Robbins, Harold, 301, 306 Rock-and-roll, lyrics of sexual

abuse, 295-97

Roller, Lulu, 281 Rolling Stones, 295 ff. Rowan, Carl, 242, 243

Rowlandson, Mary, 140-41

Rush, Florence, 277, 280

Russian Army, 32, 66-72

Russian Revolution, 121-22 Ryan, Cornelius, 66
ff.

Sabine women, rape of, 34, 289

Sackville, George, 38

Sadism, 50-51, 6o--6i, 90, 193,

263

Sadomasochism, 263-64, 318 St. Augustine,
see
Augustine St. Francis Indians, 141 Saints, rape of, 330-32 Salisbury, Harrison, 73n
Sanctuary
(Faulkner), 195 Sand Creek Massacre, 144-45,

151-52

San Quentin Prison, 208

Sartre, Jean Paul, 124, 251, 26i—

262

Schomburg Center for Research, 212

Schuyler, Philippa, 137-38 Scottish Highland Wars, 38-40

Scottsboro Case, 210, 212, 230-34,

260

Seduction, 22, 23, 142, 264, 271,

275-76, 283, 400-01

Seduction of the Innocent

(Wertham), 342

Selby, Hubert, 194

Self-defense, women's, 14, 401-04

Sentencing, discriminatory, 216,

220

see also
Penalties

Serenelli, Alessandro, 330-31

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(Law rence), 264

"Sex drive" myth, and rape, 178-179

Sex Offenders
(Gebhard), 179n,

280-81

Sex Offenses
(Guttmacher), 178

Sex and Racism in America
(Hern ton), 249

Sexual abuse:
see
Child molesta

tion; Harassment; Humilia tion; Mutilation; Rape; Sadism; Sodomy; Statutory Rape

Sexual abuse of children, 272-85

see also
Child molestation; Child rape; Children, abuse and rape of; Incest; Statutory rape

Sexual assault:
see
Child molesta

tion; Harrassment; Incest; Rape; Sodomy; Statutory rape

Sexu(ll Behavior in the H uman

Female
(Kinsey), 276, 277

Sexual Behavior in the Human M ale
(Kinsey), 276

Sexual fantasies:
see
Fantasies Sexual humiliation:
see
Humila

tion, sexual Sexuality, female:

biological facts of, 3 conditioning for, 309-46 misconceptions of, psychoanalytic, 315-26

Sexuality, female,
continued see also
Victim behavior;

Women

Sexual mutilation:
see
Mutilation, sexual

Sexual Offender and His Offenses, The
(Karpman), 178

Sexual Revolution, The
(Reich), 12 Shapiro, Meyer, 300

Shulman, Irving, 297

Sihanouk, Prince, 89

Sing Sing Prison, rapists in, 207 Sioux Indians, 143, 144, 145
Sitting Bull
(Vestal), 144 "Slave girl," concept, 70

Slave labor, 33, 35, 133, 153
ff.

see also
Slavery, American Slave revolts, 217

Slavery, American, and rape, 153—

173

black resistance to, 161-62, 164—

165, 217

as control over reproduction,

i53-54

no concept of criminality in,

162-64

racist-sexist dilemma, origins in, 210, 217
ff.,
255

see also
Black women; Interracial

rape

Slave trade, 154-55, 168-70

Slave Trading in the Old South

(Bancroft), i69 Smith, Joseph, 125, 126 Social class:
see
Class

Socialism, concepts of rape in, 11-12

see also
Communism; Commu nist Party, U.S.

Sociology, and study of rape, 179-86

Sodomy, as charge, 76, 1oon, 196,

264, 378

Soldier rapist, 31, 32, 35-36, 49, '

468
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Soldier rapist,
continued

71-73, 87
ff.,
97--<)8, 101-04,

117

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 72

Songs, popular, and lyrics of sexual abuse, 295--<)7, 336

Soul on Ice
(Cleaver), 248, 251

South
of
Freedom
(Rowan), 243 South Vietnamese Army, 87-88,

89

Southwestern states, frequency of

violence in, 185

Spatial patterns of·rape, 185-86 Speck, Richard, 293, 361

Speer, Albert, 49

Spirit Lake Massacre, 143

:italin, Joseph, 71 Statistics, of rape:

approaches to interpreting, 174 arrests and convictions, 370, 372

in Bangladesh, 79, 80, 81

and black crime, 213-16

in child molestation, lack of,
2
76-79

FBI, 213-16

in gang rape, lack of, 187 in interracial rape, 214-16

methods of gathering, 174-75, 180
ff.

in Philadelphia study, 182-86 in prison rape, 264, 266

in rape-murder, 197--<)8 and reporting of rape, 175

variables used in, 174, 180, 184,

348-61

in Vietnam, 98-101

in World War 11, U.S., 76--78 Statutes of Westminster, 29-30,

382

Statutory rape:

as charge, 29, 77

military definition of, 1oon penalties for, 382-83

rules of law for, 370-71, 382-83

statistics on, 175

Story
of
0
("Reage"), 323

Strachey, Lytton, 263

Stranger rape, 184-85, 351-52,

366, 374, 398

Straw
Dogs (film), 302

Streetcar Named Desire, A

(Williams), 304n Styron, William, 217 Suburbs, rise of rape in, 185

Suffrage movement, and lynching, 225

Suicide, as consequence of rape,

)4,
68, 75, 84, 328, 329, 332

Sullivan, Victoria, 302, 303

Summa Theologiae
(Aquinas),

3
2
9

Superstar
(Viva), 273, 326