Vigarello, Georges.
A history of rape : sexual violence in France from the 16th to the 20th century / by Georges Vigarello ; translated by Jean Birrell. - Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2001. - vi, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Translation of: Histoire du viol.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-299) and index.
Pt. I. The Ancien Regime: Violence and Blasphemy -- 1. A Violence Like Any Other? -- 2. A Degradation Concealing Violence -- 3. The Absence of the Subject Concealing Violence -- Pt. II. The Revision and Relative Impotence of the New Code -- 4. Public Opinion, the 'Libertine' and the Victim at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Emergence of Child Rape -- 6. Revolution through the Law Codes -- Pt. III. Modern Law and the Hierarchy of Criminal Acts -- 7. A New Curiosity at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- 8. Defining Affront and Assault -- 9. Recognizing 'Moral Violence' -- 10. An 'Increase' in Rape and a 'Decrease' in Violence? -- Pt. IV. Inventing the Rapist -- 11. Rape-Murder at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 12. Investigating the Rapist -- 13. Deviants and Marginals -- 14. The Beginnings of a Psychology -- Pt. V. The Moral Debate: Rape and Society Today -- 15. From Trying Rapists to Trying Rape -- 16. The Collapse of the Old Order. 17. At Risk from the Law: Sentencing and Treatment.
English
0745621694 0745621708
00033620
Rape--History.--France
Rape--Psychological aspects.
364.153209 / VIH
A history of rape : sexual violence in France from the 16th to the 20th century / by Georges Vigarello ; translated by Jean Birrell. - Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2001. - vi, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Translation of: Histoire du viol.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-299) and index.
Pt. I. The Ancien Regime: Violence and Blasphemy -- 1. A Violence Like Any Other? -- 2. A Degradation Concealing Violence -- 3. The Absence of the Subject Concealing Violence -- Pt. II. The Revision and Relative Impotence of the New Code -- 4. Public Opinion, the 'Libertine' and the Victim at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Emergence of Child Rape -- 6. Revolution through the Law Codes -- Pt. III. Modern Law and the Hierarchy of Criminal Acts -- 7. A New Curiosity at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- 8. Defining Affront and Assault -- 9. Recognizing 'Moral Violence' -- 10. An 'Increase' in Rape and a 'Decrease' in Violence? -- Pt. IV. Inventing the Rapist -- 11. Rape-Murder at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 12. Investigating the Rapist -- 13. Deviants and Marginals -- 14. The Beginnings of a Psychology -- Pt. V. The Moral Debate: Rape and Society Today -- 15. From Trying Rapists to Trying Rape -- 16. The Collapse of the Old Order. 17. At Risk from the Law: Sentencing and Treatment.
English
0745621694 0745621708
00033620
Rape--History.--France
Rape--Psychological aspects.
364.153209 / VIH