The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France

The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9781000842166
ISBN-13 : 1000842169
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Book Synopsis The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France by : Mary McAlpin

Download or read book The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France written by Mary McAlpin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman’s non-consent a logical impossibility. The Enlightenment promotion of human sexuality as natural and desirable required a secularized narrative for how sexual violence against women functioned. Novel biomedical and historical theories about the "natural" sex act worked to erase the concept of heterosexual rape. McAlpin intervenes in a far-ranging assortment of scholarly disciplines to survey and demonstrate how rape was rationalized: the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, the development of the modern self, the social contractarian tradition, the global eighteenth century, and the libertine tradition in the eighteenth-century novel. This intervention will be essential reading to students and scholars in gender studies, literature, cultural studies, visual studies, and the history of sexuality.


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