A history of rape : sexual violence in France from the 16th to the 20th century / by Georges Vigarello ; translated by Jean Birrell.
2001
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Author
Title
A history of rape : sexual violence in France from the 16th to the 20th century / by Georges Vigarello ; translated by Jean Birrell.
Uniform Title
Histoire du viol. English
Published
Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Call Number
HV6569.F8 V5413 2001
ISBN
0745621694 (alk. paper)
0745621708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0745621708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
vi, 306 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44018945
Note
Translation of: Histoire du viol.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-299) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Pt. I
The Ancien Regime: Violence and Blasphemy
1A Violence Like Any Other?
9
2A Degradation Concealing Violence
24
3The Absence of the Subject Concealing Violence
38
Pt. II
The Revision and Relative Impotence of the New Code
4Public Opinion, the 'Libertine' and the Victim at the End of the Eighteenth Century
62
5The Emergence of Child Rape
75
6Revolution through the Law Codes
87
Pt. III
Modern Law and the Hierarchy of Criminal Acts
7A New Curiosity at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
106
8Defining Affront and Assault
115
9Recognizing 'Moral Violence'
128
10An 'Increase' in Rape and a 'Decrease' in Violence?
146
Pt. IV
Inventing the Rapist
11Rape-Murder at the End of the Nineteenth Century
166
12Investigating the Rapist
174
13Deviants and Marginals
182
14The Beginnings of a Psychology
194
Pt. V
The Moral Debate: Rape and Society Today
15From Trying Rapists to Trying Rape
206
16The Collapse of the Old Order
215
17At Risk from the Law: Sentencing and Treatment
225
Conclusion
241
Notes
245
Index
300