Sexual Violence and American Manhood

by T. Walter Herbert Jr.

Book Overview

Taking up topics as diverse and timely as the work of FBI profilers, the pornography debates, feminist analyses of male supremacy as sexual abuse, the ritual meanings of fraternity gang rape, and the interplay of racial and sexual injustice, T. Walter Herbert illuminates the chronic masculine anxieties that seek compensation in fantasies of sexual coercion and in sexual offenses against women. His work offers an unusually clear view of this prevailing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009177
• ISBN13: 9780674009172
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.5"