A Natural History of Rape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Natural History of Rape write by Randy Thornhill. This book was released on 2001-02-23. A Natural History of Rape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape. In this controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations. Regardless of the answer, Thornhill and Palmer note, rape circumvents a central feature of women's reproductive strategy: mate choice. This is a primary reason why rape is devastating to its victims, especially young women. Thornhill and Palmer address, and claim to demolish scientifically, many myths about rape bred by social science theory over the past twenty-five years. The popular contention that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire is, they argue, scientifically inaccurate. Although they argue that rape is biological, Thornhill and Palmer do not view it as inevitable. Their recommendations for rape prevention include teaching young males not to rape, punishing rape more severely, and studying the effectiveness of "chemical castration." They also recommend that young women consider the biological causes of rape when making decisions about dress, appearance, and social activities. Rape could cease to exist, they argue, only in a society knowledgeable about its evolutionary causes. The book includes a useful summary of evolutionary theory and a comparison of evolutionary biology's and social science's explanations of human behavior. The authors argue for the greater explanatory power and practical usefulness of evolutionary biology. The book is sure to stir up discussion both on the specific topic of rape and on the larger issues of how we understand and influence human behavior.
A Natural History of Rape
A Natural History of Rape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Natural History of Rape write by Randy Thornhill. This book was released on 2000. A Natural History of Rape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape.
Against Our Will
Against Our Will - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Our Will write by Susan Brownmiller. This book was released on 2013-09-24. Against Our Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVDIVSusan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today/divDIV Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable “spoil of war,” used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications./divDIV It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to “blame the victim,” and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States./divDIV Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages./divDIV Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance./divDIV/div/div
Natural History Rape Museum
Natural History Rape Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural History Rape Museum write by Danielle Pafunda. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Natural History Rape Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "'It feels good, ' says Danielle Pafunda, 'to conduct the world's violence on the page. It's my response to violence without doing or incurring much violence. It's how I navigate through it.' The fifth poetry collection by Danielle Pafunda, Natural History Rape Museum centers around an unnamed speaker and her intimate/adversary, the fuckwad, in pieces interrupted (or violated) by their boxed-in titles. Further interrupting this narrative are a prose sequence and a menagerie of objects/animals/elements borne as totems by the speaker--a lump of coal, a stingray, a cord of wood, a wolf spider, an earthworm, the fly. The volume culminates in four linked essays on the subject of pain: The Bid for Pain, The Manner in Which Pain Becomes Me, Pain Beak-Pecks a Figurine, and Extraterrestrial Painsake. Exploring the more grotesque corners of the Gurlesque aesthetic, in Natural History Rape Museum Pafunda ventriloquizes through the unstable identities of her characters to create creepy tableaux that resemble--despite their vivid, violent excesses--the world we know." -- Publisher's description.
Evolution, Gender, and Rape
Evolution, Gender, and Rape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolution, Gender, and Rape write by Cheryl Brown Travis. This book was released on 2003. Evolution, Gender, and Rape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the flaws and limitations of a strictly biological model of rape, and argues that traditionally stereotyped gender roles are grounded more in culture than in differing biological reproductive roles. [back cover].
