 | 143. A similar theme is adopted by Mariana Valverde in "Too Much Heat, Not Enough Light," in Bell,
Good Girls/Bad Girls
, 32; also see Valverde,
Sex, Power, and Pleasure
, 3446. Lynne Segal challenges antipornography feminists both to refuse men's sexual objectification of women and to construct a woman-identified sexual subjectivity, in the section entitled "My Generation" from
Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
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| 1. This is not to deny the existence of pervasive and often brutal violence against women worldwide. See Marilyn French,
The War against Women
(New York: Ballentine Books, 1992), 179207. Those who characterize sexual violence against women as epidemic in the United States include Florence Rush,
The Best-Kept Secret: The Sexual Abuse of Children
(Blue Ridge Summit, Penn.: TAB Books, 1980), 5; Diana E. H. Russell,
Sexual Exploitation: Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, and Workplace Harassment
(Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1984), 62. For recent feminist overviews and critical discussion of women's sexual victimization, also see Diana E. H. Russell,
Rape in Marriage
(New York: Macmillan, 1982) and
The Secret Trauma
(New York: Basic Books, 1986); Jill Radford and Diana E. H. Russell,
Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing
(New York: Macmillan, 1990); Lenore Walker,
The Battered Woman Syndrome
(New York: Springer Publishing, 1984); Kersti Yllö and Michele Bograd, eds.,
Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse
(Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1988); Judith Lewis Herman,
Father-Daughter Incest
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981); Louise Armstrong,
Kiss Daddy Goodnight
(New York: Hawthorn Press, 1978) and
Kiss Daddy Goodnight: Ten Years Later
(New York: Pocket Books, 1987).
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| 2. See Russell,
Sexual Exploitation
, 143, 253, 265; Barrie Levy, ed.,
Dating Violence: Young Women in Danger
(Seattle: Seal Press, 1991), 8; Julie A. Allison and Lawrence S. Wrightsman,
Rape: The Misunderstood Crime
(Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1993), ix, 34; French,
The War against Women
, 194; Del Martin,
Battered Wives
(Volcano, Calif.: Volcano Press, 1976, 1981), 1920; Rush,
The Best-Kept Secret
, 2; Larry L. Tifft,
Battering of Women: The Failure of Intervention and the Case for Prevention
(Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993), 12.
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| 3. For example, see Russell,
Sexual Exploitation
; French,
The War against Women
; Susan Schechter,
Women and Male Violence: The Visions and Struggles of the Battered Women's Movement
(Boston: South End Press, 1982). For arguments that men are violated and victimized to a far greater extent than feminists allow and that the power of patriarchy to victimize women is overblown and overstated, see Warren Farrell,
The Myth of Male Power
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993); also see Alan M. Dershowitz, "Wives Also Kill HusbandsQuite Often,"
Los Angeles Times
, 21 July 1994; Cathy Young, "The Sexist Violence against Women Act,"
Wall Street Journal
, 23 March 1994; Christina Hoff Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), chaps. 1, 9, 10, and 11; Katie Roiphe,
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1993), 8112.
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| 4. French,
The War against Women
, 195. As late as 1991, it was easier to convict a car thief than a rapist, and officers were more likely to arrest a man for parking tickets than for beating his wife. See Ola W. Barnett and Alyce D. LaViolette,
It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay
(Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1993), 37.
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| 5. See Louise Armstrong, "Making an Issue of Incest," and Ann Jones, "Family Matters," in
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism
, ed. Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond (New York: Teachers College Press, 1990), 49, 63.
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| 6. For a variety of feminist analyses of women's sexual victimization from this perspective, see Susan Brownmiller,
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
(New York: Bantam Books,
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