Dismembering Rape Culture: Exposing Ghosts of Sexual Violence from London, 1870-1890

abstract: Did the Victorians live in a “rape culture”? London between 1870 and 1890 was certainly a place in which sexual violence was publicly condemned as an overall concept (W. T. Stead’s “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon, for example). Yet, in contrast to the moral denunciation, the historic...

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Other Authors: Boyd, Monica (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57059