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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...
...commissioner says he realizes that he will face tensions of another sort when he arrives in Cambridge. The city has endured a rash of violence the past few weeks, including a rape and two stabbings, one of them fatal, in the Harvard vicinity...
...traumas must have had their effect psychologically throughout the community," Anderson says. "A rape and a stabbing are among the worst things that could happen. I'll have to wait until I get down there to make assessments and evaluations on the situations that have already happened there--I don't want to be premature. We'll just have to look at the structure of the city and do whatever's best for the city...
...could tell," Cassone recalls. "I couldn't see if he had shorts or what underneath, and I got nervous and decided to leave." Cassone says the investigator hired by the Kennedys seemed relieved by her recollection, however unflattering, since it distanced Kennedy from the alleged rape...