Book recommendations on rape and violence against women (sorry for the topic, but ...).

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

I'm putting together an Amazon order.

I have:

Marianne Hester, 'Women, Violence and Male Power'
I just found it by typing keywords into amazon search, would like to know if anyone's read it and thought it useful?).

Susan Ehrlich, 'Representing Rape'

Susan Estrich, 'Sex and Power'

Susan Brownmiller, 'Against Our Will'

I know Dworkin is all online, so will look at that (though recs of where to start would be good).

What else would you suggest? And if you can, can you tell me a bit about what the book is about? I'm especially interested in the language we use to talk about rape, and in different representations of rape (rape myths, I guess, but also analysis of literature that's been influential in shaping how people understand rape).

I know it's a depressing topic and I apologise for that.

It's sounds a bit trite under your list of weighty academic tomes, LRD, but the novel "AppleTree Yard" got me thinking; the prison sentence wasn't the worst thing for the victim, but the public shaming and the cross questioning in court.

I hope you don't get snide comments for your title, incase you attract the wrong types to MN

Sorry - I thought quite hard about the title, but then I figured honestly, it'd be worse if I put something vague and people clicked on it to be confronted by quite gritty titles about rape when they weren't expecting it.

I'd not heard of that novel, so will definitely seek it out. And it's not trite - I find the heavy stuff hard to read, it's just I know I need to get into it a bit more to understand.

Thanks very much.

I'm sure you have read it before but Alice Sebold's Lucky.

I've not, actually - thank you!

This is good www.amazon.com/Trauma-Recovery-Aftermath-Violence-Political/dp/0465087302

Thanks very much!

The online Dworkin library is here

I'll keep looking for the other link I have somewhere which connects to all her works in PDF and Kindle compatible files.

Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men's Violence and Women's Lives by psychologist Dee Graham.

radfem.org/stockholm/

Graham deals not only with the effect of sexual violence on individuals, but theorises that the threat of rape and male violence creates Societal Stockholm Syndrome in women (i.e., bonding and psychological identification with men as a group).

IMO it is one of the most important feminist books ever written.

Thanks for the link capt, and thanks donkey. That looks really useful. I can believe that about Stockholm Syndrome.

I can recommend Joanna Burke's A history of rape. It's really a history of rapists, of the language that has been used by lawyers, psychologists, scientists and policymakers to explain and understand what makes men rape.

Burke analyses very thoroughly how this language is gendered; how it is appropriated by rapists themselves to explain their crimes; and how it has contributed to stigmatising, marginalising and erasing women from the conversation about rape. There are important chapters on male victims, female perpetrators, and other sex crimes (eg, flashing) which provide a comparative perspective.

Burke writes from a liberal, pragmatic perspective, but her conclusions — notably, that a liberal legal system is institutionally incapable of delivering justice to rape victims — are robust.

Sue lees rape on trial

Russel and Rebecca Dobash have written a lot on vaw

It's Joanna Bourke, not Burke.

ezin, that sounds exactly the sort of thing, thanks very much.

And thanks weatherall, I think someone else mentioned Rape on Trial and it slipped my mind. I'll go put it on the list.