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95. Peterson, "Coercion and Rape," 36061, 367; also see Frye,
The Politics of Reality
, 27, 5457.
96. Frye,
The Politics of Reality
, 5657.
97. See Russell,
Sexual Exploitation
, 117, 119.
98. See Frye,
The Politics of Reality
, 3. Russell claims that such contradictions create the kind of sexual misunderstandings and hostility extremely conducive to rape.
Sexual Exploitation
, 164; also see Bateman, "The Context of Dating Violence," 9799.
99. See Allison and Wrightsman,
Rape
, 1415, 2627, 6164, 7882. For feminist commentary on the ways women are socialized to see nothing wrong with men forcing them into sex, see Paola Tabet, "Hands, Tools, Weapons,"
Feminist Issues
2 (1982): 362, and "Imposed Reproduction: Maimed Sexuality,"
Feminist Issues
7 (1987): 331. For a discussion of how psychoanalytic theory perpetuates rape myths, see Brownmiller,
Against Our Will
, 35064.
100. See Frye,
The Politics of Reality
, 6172. The contention that such seasoning is a fundamental goal and reality of patriarchy is reiterated in Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
, 7882,
 
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and Sonia Johnson, "Taking Our Eyes off the Guys," in Leidholdt and Raymond,
The Sexual Liberals
, 5660.
101. Frye,
The Politics of Reality
, 7374; also see Graham and Rawlings, "Bonding with Abusive Dating Partners"; Barnett and LaViolette,
It Could Happen to Anyone
, 8288, 1037;
Tifft, Battering of Women
, 5056; Ganache, "Domination and Control," 74; Bateman, "The Context of Dating Violence," 98.
102. See French,
The War against Women
, 18990; Schechter,
Women and Male Violence
, 3; Martin,
Battered Wives
, 2021, 27980; also see Tong,
Women, Sex, and the Law
, 12.4; Hofeller,
Battered Women
, 23.
103. See Tong,
Women, Sex, and the Law
, 13637, 140, 144, 16972; Hofeller,
Battered Women
, 1819, 6970, 9495, 97; Barnett and LaViolette,
It Could Happen to Anyone
, xix, 19, 1621, 3137; Schechter,
Women and Male Violence
, 24; also see White, "The Abused Black Woman," 9293.
104. See Tong,
Women, Sex, and the Law
, 14549; Schechter,
Women and Male Violence
, 17074; Martin,
Battered Wives
, 5759, 27071.
105. See Russell,
Sexual Exploitation
, 172; also see Finkelhor,
Sexually Victimized Children
, 2, quoted in Russell with her analysis, in
Sexual Exploitation
, 26668; also see Rush,
The Best-Kept Secret
, 2; Kate Millett, "Beyond Politics?: Children and Sexuality," in
Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality
, ed. Carole S. Vance (London: Pandora Press, 1989), 22223.
106. See Sandra Butler,
Conspiracy of Silence
, 4, 4648, 94125; Judith Lewis Herman,
Father-Daughter Incest
, 27, quoted in Russell,
Sexual Exploitation
, 248; Rush,
The Best-Kept Secret
, 147.
107. See Russell,
Sexual Exploitation
, 22831. Judith Lewis Herman points out that the majority of child sexual abuse victims do not become perpetrators. See
Trauma and Recovery
, 113, 114.
108. See Russell,
Sexual Exploitation
, 24243, 26364; Armstrong, "Making an Issue of Incest," 44, 5152; Sandra Butler,
Conspiracy of Silence
, 9091; Rush,
The Best-Kept Secret
, 99, 13441, 16264, 19394.
109. Rush,
The Best-Kept Secret
, 104, 1415, 80, 138, 143, 145; Armstrong, "Making an Issue of Incest," 51; Sandra Butler,
Conspiracy of Silence
, 911, 3436, 21112; Judith Lewis Herman,
Trauma and Recovery
, 1020. For some of the ways in which adults' recovered memories of their childhood abuse are meeting with resistance and backlash, see Louise Armstrong,
Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics: What Happened When Women Said Incest
(Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1994).
110. For example, see Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
; Andrea Dworkin,
Right-Wing Women
(New York: Perigee Books, 1983). For an analysis of sex objectification in terms of treating persons as less than moral equals, see LeMoncheck,
Dehumanizing Women
, 2638.

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