• DOI:10.1177/0361684311404307
Corpus ID: 145146774

Sexual Violence Against Women

@article{Rutherford2011SexualVA,
  title={Sexual Violence Against Women},
  author={A. Rutherford},
  journal={Psychology of Women Quarterly},
  year={2011},
  volume={35},
  pages={342 - 347}
}

A. Rutherford

Published 2011

Psychology

Psychology of Women Quarterly

In 1977, one reviewer of Susan Brownmiller’s classic work, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (1975) wrote that rape was a topic ‘‘hitherto as well known to conventional scholars as the dark side of the moon’’ (Shorter, 1977, p. 471). Conventional scholars were not alone in their ignorance. Their lack of awareness mirrored the general lack of knowledge—or denial—in the public at large about the prevalence and nature of violence against women to that time. Sexual violence, or the threat… CONTINUE READING

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