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...said it was "confident that its editorial decision to air the name of the rape victim is consistent with the protections afforded by the Constitution...
...Once her identity had become common and public knowledge, we decided to publish it," Crooke said. He said Reuters would not change its traditional policy of not identifying rape victims...
This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. Because the authors maintain a flexible definition of what constitutes a rape, they allow each respondent to personalize the fear that they feel...
Unfortunately, because Gordon and Riger never describe a typical rape, the reader is confused as to the feasability of the solutions the authors propose. Gordon and Riger advocate a nine-point plan that includes a revision of existing rape laws, a reform of media coverage and increased rape education in schools. Although hypothetically desirable, this plan lacks concrete applications. The authors often remain content with generalities rather than pragmatic solutions...
...Female Fear shows that the fear of rape "is not an idiosyncratic, private emotion, but a social fact with considerable impact on our society and on the quality of life in our cities." Any woman who reads this book will be comforted by the knowledge that she is not alone in her anxiety. Unfortunately, Gordon and Riger do not propose effective societal solutions for the problem their book so powerfully describes