sexual violence as social control
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On violence against women.
This is the first in a series. Read the second one here. Quick caveat: this essay will be unpleasant. Given the title, you can probably guess the nature of the impending unpleasantness. So, if you think that’s a topic you shouldn’t be reading about right now, then you should skip this. But it’s something I…
Against Our Will, ancient sexual assault trials, Bible, Christianity, consensual kissing does not imply consent to further physical affection, cultural relativism, dueling to let God dictate which party to a trial is more honest, ellusive justice, erasure, feminism, Homer, Kampan versus Valmiki Ramayanas, making fiction less horrible than reality so that readers aren’t too upset, Martin Van Creveld, Oliver Fallon, rape, removing charms before a duel, sexual assault, sexual assault trials, sexual violence as social control, silenced text, silenced voices, Susan Brownmiller, The Death of Ravana, the oppression of fear, underlying misogyny of various religious traditions, Valmiki, was Supranakha punished for sexual empowerment, who writes history, women shackled to rotten husbands
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