{"product_id":"new-logic-of-sexual-violence-in-enlightenment-france","title":"New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman’s non-consent a logical impossibility. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Enlightenment promotion of human sexuality as natural and desirable required a secularized narrative for how sexual violence against women functioned. Novel biomedical and historical theories about the \"natural\" sex act worked to erase the concept of heterosexual rape. McAlpin intervenes in a far-ranging assortment of scholarly disciplines to survey and demonstrate how rape was rationalized: the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, the development of the modern self, the social contractarian tradition, the global eighteenth century, and the libertine tradition in the eighteenth-century novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis intervention will be essential reading to students and scholars in gender studies, literature, cultural studies, visual studies, and the history of sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236951249240,"sku":"9781032255538","price":179.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032255538_d1a9110e-91a5-4c86-bef3-c9c62cabf9d6.jpg?v=1768556730","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/new-logic-of-sexual-violence-in-enlightenment-france","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}