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  • THE NEW LOGIC OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ENLIGHTENMENT FRANCE
    MARY MCALPIN
    This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman’s non-consent a logical impossibility. The Enlightenment promotion of human sexuality as natural and desirable ...

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  • FEMALE SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL DEGRADATION IN ENLIGHTENMENT FRANCE
    MARY MCALPIN
    In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises, Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization. McAlpin's study explores a strong thread in this rhetoric of decline: the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls, supposedly ...

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