After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and Making of Culture

by Lawrence Kramer

Book Overview

This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women.

To make his case, Kramer uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520224892
• ISBN13: 9780520224896
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"