Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan

by Morris Berman

It is a simple truth that throughout history, certain rapes have become "famous." Old Master painters depicted sexual violence again and again, generally representing it as the transcendent work of heroes. Traditional Catholic stories teach that it is better to die during an attempted rape than it is to survive a completed one.In19th- and 20th-century America, notorious fear about the sexuality of black men wreaked havoc. From the days of Reconstruction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621342190
• ISBN13: 9781621342199
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Water Street Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"