WOMS240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.2: Marital Rape, Susan Brownmiller, Sexual Penetration
21 Feb 2017
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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc. , if i may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right. Not one wife in a thousand can do that now. lucy stone, in a letter to antoinette brown, july 11, 1855. The right of men to control the female body is a cornerstone of patriarchy: efforts to control pregnancy and childbirth and female health care in general, male opposition to abortion = opposition to female autonomy. I call it sexual terrorism because it is a system by which males frighten and, by frightening, control and dominate females (pg. Sexual terrorism: that women"s lives are bounded by both the reality of pervasive sexual danger and the fear that reality engenders. Susan brownmiller said rape is, nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear .
