Defining rape /

Defining rape /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bourque, Linda Brookover, 1941-
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 1989.
Description:	xix, 428 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Rape -- United States. Rape -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies. Rape -- United States -- Public opinion. Public opinion -- United States Rape -- Research -- United States. Public opinion. Rape. Rape -- Public opinion. Rape -- Research. California -- Los Angeles. United States. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/959152

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ISBN:	0822309017
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
2. Feminist Theory and Victims of Rape
3. Men Who Rape: Psychodynamic and Sociocultural Evidence
4. Individual Definitions of Rape: Perspectives from Attribution Theory
5. Institutional Definitions of Rape: the Judiciary
6. Community Definitions of Rape
Summary of Part II
Part III. A Community's Definition of Rape
7. Los Angeles Study
8. When a Sexual Encounter Becomes a Rape
9. Ethnic, Gender, and Social-Class Differences in Perceptions of Rape
10. Actors, Causes, and Solutions
11. Respondents' Personal and Legal Definitions of Rape
12. Rape in Los Angeles
13. Los Angeles in Context
Part IV. Conclusions and Implications
Appendix 2. Designing and Analyzing Vignettes
Appendix 3. Supplementary Tables from the Los Angeles Study
Notes
Bibliography
Index