Simon & Schuster 1975-10-15 Hardcover Very Good Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes very good clean copy.

Simon & Schuster 1975-10-15 Hardcover Very Good Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good in very good creased price-clipped dust jacket. Second printing *

ISBN10: 0671220624, ISBN13: 9780671220624, [publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1975] Hardcover 472 p. ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0671220624; 9780671220624 LCCN: 75-12705 ; LC: HV6558; Dewey: 364.1/53; NLM: HV 6558 B885a 1975 ; OCLC: 1324585 ; brown cloth with dustjacket ; "The most comrpehensive study of rape ever offered to the public.It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime." --Newsweek ; The feminist book par excellence, by one of the Movement's leading theoreticians, about the crime only males can commit--rape. From a feudal lord's "first night" privileges with his female serfs to a Southern plantation owner's easy access to his slaves, from ancient Troy to Vietnamese hamlets, everywhere soldiers have marched into conquered lands, the strong and the rich have systematically oppressed the weak and the poor, preferably (but not always) those of other races, creeds or nationalities, usually women, but also slightly built young men in prisons. Brownmiller shows how rape has its genesis in power (and the need to preserve the appearance of power) rather than eroticism. It is as much a function of the strange byways of male dominance and bonding as it is an expression of contempt for the female victim: early Babylonian law was concerned with the loss of the bride price associated with the marriage of an "unspoiled" virgin; rape was avenged not by punishing the rapist, but by ...
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ISBN10: 0671220624, ISBN13: 9780671220624, [publisher: Simon & Schuster] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.9
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1975]

New York Simon & Schuster 1975 Book of the Month Club Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Shelf wear to panels. Upward creasing to upper and lower edges of front and rear panels.; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.70 inches; 472 pages.

ISBN10: 0671220624, ISBN13: 9780671220624, [publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York] Hardcover Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Shelf wear to panels. Upward creasing to upper and lower edges of front and rear panels. ; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.70 inches; 472 pages.
[Pomona, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1975]
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