WOMS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rape Crisis Center, Marital Rape, Pelvic Pain
13 Jan 2018
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Then husbands i. ii: men had a legal/religious/cultural right to beat their wives iv. Scotus actually ruled that a wife could not charge her husband with assault and battery: punishment i. ii. Punishment for rape was compensation to the men for damaging their property, instead of compensating the women who were actually raped. Punishment often reflected class or racial bias: 1960s to 1970s i. ii. Feminist movement and development of a critique of society. Even feminists were hesitant about discussing it and believed rape myths: susan brownmiller thought that rape was a bad dating situation that any alert woman could avoid, diana russell believed in the crazed stranger myth iii. 1970s refocus: redefined from the victim"s perspective, recognized rape as an act of violence, not an act of sex iv. Increases the likelihood for social opposition to them d. Activists pushed for legal and medical institutions to address the treatment of victims.
