Word: rape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group proposed an open meeting with students later in the fall to discuss rape, sexual harrassment and security...
James Chretien of Lawrence, Mass., faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the rape conviction and a minimum mandatory sentence of ten years in prison for the burglary charge...
Chretien was charged with two counts of rape and two counts of entering his wife's house last February. He was acquitted on one charge of rape and burglary...
...Florence during Michelangelo's time, countless victims of stabbings by hit men were seen floating under bridges. In London during the Age of Enlightenment, gangs roamed the streets committing rape. Says Critic George Steiner: "Our sense of a lost civility and order comes from a very short period of exceptional calm-from the 1860s to 1914, or the interlude between the Civil War and World...
...rationale is that pornography is a significant factor in the nation's disturbing rate of sexual violence against women and children. One of the movement's organizers and a leader of the weekly Manhattan tours is Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which contends that rape is a social and political instrument to oppress women. Adds Psychologist Phyllis Chesler: "For years women have been reluctant to speak out against pornography for fear of being called prudes or bluestockings or evoking the ridicule...