Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing

This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in cultures of thinking, reading, and writing. The author rethinks rape, or sexual violence, through a close examination of how rape is a pedagogy that has become canonized in the form of rape stories.

Victor J. Vitanza is a Professor of English and Rhetorics at Clemson University, USA.