Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrink will not stand up. Here he is, at a tenants' meeting of Co-Op Village, which he has agreed to address on the psychology of rape. He just sits on the rostrum, arms folded, waiting for his check. Only when one of the tenants breathlessly delivers his fee does he start in-and what a start. He leaps up, shoots a blank pistol out into the audience, frightens the women, describes instead the physiology of rape in such heated detail that tremblings because of the shots are replaced with giggles. He asks for a volunteer from the audience...
...clearinghouse on women's affairs and "as a pressure group to assure that all women be granted greater rights." The center is sponsoring a variety of projects this fall, including a series of medical self-help groups; a program of informal workshops dealing with such issues as birth control, rape and female sexuality; a course in self-defense; and a number of consciousnessraising groups focusing on personal and political issues...
...second attitude makes rape possible. The first makes it impossible, almost literally, to be prosecuted. Both reinforce each other. By unconsciously defining the sacrosanct woman, belonging to her husband or father and chaste, men have thrust the majority of modern women into the other mold. A woman in control of her own life cannot be cast readily into the virgin/saint role. So she is cast into the role of whore. And in the mind of the rapist and in the courtroom she is no longer the victim, but the perpetrator: "She was asking for it," comes the matter-of-fact...
...drives, that it is up to us to keep them in check. So any woman who doesn't is asking for it and deserves what she gets. But if we don't see it coming, do not perceive our behavior as provocative in any way, we are liable for rape first and an overwhelming sense of guilt afterwards for somehow having let it happen...
Perhaps the most valuable service this book performs is to help instill in all women a sense of sexual self-determination. In rape victims, wondering what they should have done leads to guilt. In any woman, lack of a strong and secure knowledge of her own sexual rights: her right to question an intent, to scream, to make a fuss, to stand up and fight back, is a hazard that no training in karate, no can of mace can overcome...