Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasons that men continue to rape is that they continue to get away with it. -Author Susan Brownmiller
...very least, society is beginning more and more to consider rape one of the major social issues. First emphasized in the feminist press, the subject of rape slowly percolated into popular women's magazines and then into the rest of the press and television. At more than 500 "speak-outs" and conferences on rape in the past year alone and at more than 150 rape crisis centers set up by the feminist movement since 1973, women have been raising an increasing clamor for reform...
Slowly, government has been responding. In dozens of cities women have participated in rape investigations and packed police and hospital personnel off to sensitivity training courses to erase a traditional image: the snickering male authority who believes the victim "was asking for it." The Government is now pouring millions of dollars into research on the rape problem and care for victims. Seventeen states have barred courtroom inquiries into a rape victim's previous sex life on the ground that it is not pertinent. New York eliminated a requirement for corroborating evidence. In pushing through the change, feminists...
These measures have done little to assuage the growing anger of many American women, who look upon the rape problem not as one feminist cause among many, but as a metaphor for all suffering at the hands of men. Some women wear CASTRATE RAPISTS buttons. In Florida this year, feminists tracked and beat up a rape suspect who allegedly preyed on lonely women in singles bars. Some mutter darkly about assassinating rapists if the courts will not convict. Feminists made a national cause celebre out of the case of Joan Little, the black woman acquitted of murder in the stabbing...
Indeed, for more than four years, some feminists have been waiting for The Book: Journalist Brownmiller's forthcoming study of rape. ("It's one of the two books I lay awake nights lusting after," said a woman editor in the Village Voice.) A week before publication, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Simon & Schuster; $10.95) is already a major event; it is the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for November, is being serialized in four national magazines and will be promoted on a nationwide tour. All this is likely to make Brownmiller the first rape celebrity...