This important new book, by one of the leading social historians in
France today, analyses the changing meaning of rape through
numerous case studies across the centuries.
The book begins with a history of the relative tolerance of sexual
violence in early modern France, and the tendency to condemn the
victims by enveloping them in the shame of the act. It then traces
the changing legal attitudes to sexual violence at the end of the
eighteenth century, and the slow recognition of the role of moral
violence in rape in the nineteenth century. Vigarello also stresses
the importance of the new medical jurisprudence and the
introduction of forensic psychiatry into the courtroom.
But despite the increased number of convictions in the nineteenth
century, it was only after the campaigns conducted by feminists in
the twentieth century that the true gravity of rape as a crime
against women's integrity was fully recognized. As a result, acts
of sexual violence are no longer assessed in terms of the risk of
debauchery, but in terms of the risk of 'psychic murder' and inner
damage.
"A History of Rape" is a valuable resource for students and
scholars of social history, and anyone interested in changing
attitudes to sexuality and sexual violence
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