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This anxiety is the subject of The Female Fear. The Social Cost of Rape, by Margaret Gordon and Stephanie Riger. Gordon and Riger analyze the sources and the consequences of the fear of rape. The resulting book combines statistics and specific case studies in a fascinating manner...
...Gordon and Riger researched the topic of rape extensively. The authors studied interviews with over 300 women and men from different areas of Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The participants were asked 51 pages of questions about their experiences with rape, about their fears of being raped, and about the precautions they took to prevent being raped...
...surprisingly, Gordon and Riger found that the women who were most afraid of being raped were those who lived in lower-income neighborhoods. However, the areas that were cited as most dangerous were not always the areas with the highest incidences of rape...
...authors feel that fear of rape is imposed upon women by a male-dominated society. They attribute much of women's fear to media sensationalism and limited knowledge about the realities of rape. As support for their theory, Gordon and Riger point to the media's tendency to "blame the victim" and to the widespread belief that provocatively-dressed women are some-how "asking" to be raped...
Hillary K. Anger '93, a friend of Gordon's, says she met the sophomore on the Undergraduate Council and enjoys talking to him because "he's so much older than most students and he has reflected on so much more...