A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape. From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Cultural critic Mithu Sanyal is picking up where Susan Brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book Against Our Will. In fact, she argues that
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But our thinking on the subject has a long history, one that cultural critic mithu sanyal elegantly reconstructs.
While brutus made his decision to avenge lucretia’s rape in the heat of the moment after seeing her commit suicide, sextus tarquinius was also moved out of passion to commit the act of rape. He “was seized by the desire to violate lucretia’s chastity, seduced both by her beauty and by her exemplary virtue.
24 nov 2020 in her book rape: from lucretia to #metoo, translated from german into english in 2019, mithu sanyal traces connections between narratives.
Cultural critic mithu sanyal is picking up where susan brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book against our will.
11 dec 2020 her latest book, rape: from lucretia to #metoo (verso, 2019), bravely starts this conversation.
Rape: from lucretia to #metoo examines the role of race and the recurrent image of the black rapist, the omission of male victims, and what we mean when we talk about “rape culture. ” sanyal takes on every received opinion we have about rape, arguing with liberals, conservatives, and feminists alike.
The rape of lucretia: a history of the ancient wife who changed the destiny of rome. Sextus tarquinius was the son of lucius tarquinius superbus, the last king of rome who was engaged in the siege of ardea at the time. One day, sextus invited his friends for supper and drinks at his house.
4 jun 2019 [cw: rape]mithu sanyal explores how contemporary expectations around responses to rape can be dated back as far as lucretia.
She narrates a history spanning from lucretia--whose legendary rape and suicide was said to be the downfall of the last roman king--to second-wave feminism,.
She would be found spinning in the middle of the night helping the slaves, when most wives would be out having fun (lvii). She was ashamed that she was raped by the prince of lucius tarquinius superbus.
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