A history of rape : sexual violence in France from the 16th to the 20th centuries /
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| Author / Creator: | Vigarello, Georges. |
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| Uniform title: | Histoire du viol. English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2001. |
| Description: | vi, 306 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4393416 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Part 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?
- Part 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
- Part V. The Moral Debate: Rape and Society Today
- 15. From Trying Rapists to Trying Rape
- 16. The Collapse of the Old Order
- 17. At Risk from the Law: Sentencing and Treatment
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index