| Description |
vi, 306 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. The Ancien Regime: Violence and Blasphemy -- 1. A Violence Like Any Other? -- 2. A Degradation Concealing Violence -- 3. The Absence of the Subject Concealing Violence -- Pt. II. The Revision and Relative Impotence of the New Code -- 4. Public Opinion, the 'Libertine' and the Victim at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Emergence of Child Rape -- 6. Revolution through the Law Codes -- Pt. III. Modern Law and the Hierarchy of Criminal Acts -- 7. A New Curiosity at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- 8. Defining Affront and Assault -- 9. Recognizing 'Moral Violence' -- 10. An 'Increase' in Rape and a 'Decrease' in Violence? -- Pt. IV. Inventing the Rapist -- 11. Rape-Murder at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 12. Investigating the Rapist -- 13. Deviants and Marginals -- 14. The Beginnings of a Psychology -- Pt. V. The Moral Debate: Rape and Society Today -- 15. From Trying Rapists to Trying Rape -- 16. The Collapse of the Old Order |
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17. At Risk from the Law: Sentencing and Treatment |
| Notes |
Translation of: Histoire du viol |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-299) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Rape -- France -- History.
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Rape -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Birrell, Jean.
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| LC no. |
00033620 |
| ISBN |
0745621694 alkaline paper |
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0745621708 paperback alkaline paper |
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