Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 09:44:45 -0400
From: "D. Diane Davis" <dddavis-AT-metronet.com>
Subject: Re: Yo:rape


I have mixed feelings about this:

>[rape] is always an act of psychic and physical violence, it has nothing 
>with sex and very little to do with gender

I agree that rape is about psychic and physical violence--it's not 
about sexual desire (depending, of course, on how you want to define 
that) but about marking/establishing one's territory, one's mastery, one's 
privilege...But this particular act of violence manifests itself in a 
*sexual* way.  That is, it's violence through sex, which seems to me to 
make it a very particular kind of violence. 

I'm not sure. Again, I have mixed feelings about this. 

ddd
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