Date Rape: Feminism, Philosophy, and the Law
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Midwest Book Review
>From Mike Tyson to the Portland Trail Blazers to ?William Kennedy Smith, the phenomena of acquaintance or "date rape" has achieved headline status and come out of the closet where custom and tradition had hidden it away for generations. Leslie Francis' Date Rape is a major contribution to current debates over the meaning of date rape and how it should be criminally punished. Date Rape brings together lawyers, philosophers, and feminists to explore "communicative sexuality" as a model for the condemnation of date rape. Philosopher Lois Pineau's feminist analysis of date rape (which is the centerpiece of this book) seeks to replace myths about female provocation and male self-control with a model of communicative sexuality, in which each partner tries to understand the aims of the other and to further these ends toward what Pineau calls "good sex". Aggressive or coercive sex, she argues, lacks this fundamental understanding. Pineau's reconceptualization of sexual assault requires both nonconsensual sexual action and lack of the communication needed to establish that the action was consensual. Date Rape is a long needed and highly valued contribution toward a new understanding of an ages old problem.
Date Rape: Feminism, Philosophy, and the Law,Leslie Francis,Pennsylvania State University Press,0271014296,Criminology,Feminism & Feminist Theory,General,History & Surveys - Modern,Philosophy,Politics / Current Events,Social Science
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