Volume 22, Number 20 · December 11, 1975
The War Between Men and Women
By Diane Johnson
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
by Susan Brownmiller
Simon and Schuster, 472 pp., $10.95
Rape: The Bait and the Trap
by Jean MacKellar, with the collaboration of Dr. Menachem Amir
Crown, 154 pp., $7.95
Rape and Its Victims: A Report for Citizens, Health Facilities and Criminal Justice Agencies Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, DC. Criminal Justice Reference Service, PO Box 24036, Southwest Post Office, Washington, DC 20024
by the Center for Women Policy Studies et al., funded by the Law
Available at no charge in a "prescriptive package" from the National
No other subject, it seems, is experienced so differently by men and women as rape. Women deeply dread and resent it to an extent which men apparently cannot recognize; it is perhaps the ultimate and essential complaint that women have to make against men. Of course men may recognize that it is wrong to use physical force against another person, and that rape laws are not prosecuted fairly and so on, but at a certain point they are apt to say, 'But what was she doing there at that hour anyway?' or 'Luckily he didn't really hurt her,' and serious discussion ceases.
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