A history of rape : sexual violence in France from the 16th to the 20th century /

A history of rape : sexual violence in France from the 16th to the 20th century / by Georges Vigarello ; translated by Jean Birrell.

"This new book, by one of the leading social historians in France today, analyses the changing meaning of rape through numerous case studies across the centuries." "The book begins with a history of the relative tolerance of sexual violence in early modern France, and the tendency to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vigarello, Georges
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Rape > France > History.
Rape > Psychological aspects.
Sexual assault.
Sexual violence.
Table of Contents:
  • The Ancien Regime: Violence and Blasphemy
  • A Violence Like Any Other?
  • A Degradation Concealing Violence
  • The Absence of the Subject Concealing Violence
  • The Revision and Relative Impotence of the New Code
  • Public Opinion, the 'Libertine' and the Victim at the End of the Eighteenth Century
  • The Emergence of Child Rape
  • Revolution through the Law Codes
  • Modern Law and the Hierarchy of Criminal Acts
  • A New Curiosity at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
  • Defining Affront and Assault
  • Recognizing 'Moral Violence'
  • An 'Increase' in Rape and a 'Decrease' in Violence?
  • Inventing the Rapist
  • Rape-Murder at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  • Investigating the Rapist
  • Deviants and Marginals
  • The Beginnings of a Psychology
  • The Moral Debate: Rape and Society Today
  • From Trying Rapists to Trying Rape
  • The Collapse of the Old Order
  • At Risk from the Law: Sentencing and Treatment.

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