Renzetti, on this chapter appears at the end of the chapter. Rape's critical function is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe. Man's structural capacity to rape and woman's corresponding structural vulnerability are as basic to the physiology of both our sexes as the primal act of sex itself. But we do know that human beings are different. No zoologist has ever observed that animals rape in their natural habitat, the wild. Combining patient interviews with an analysis of women's roles in history, society, and myth Chesler concludes that there is a terrible double standard when it comes to women's psychology. The subject of rape has not been, for zoologists, an important scientific question. This definitive book was the first to address critical questions about women and mental health. Critical to our study is the recognition that rape has a history, and that through the tools of historical analysis we may learn what we need to know about our current condition.
So it remained for the latter-day feminists, free at last from the strictures that forbade us to look at male sexuality, to discover the truth and meaning in our own victimization. Krafft-Ebing, Freud, Adler, Jung, Deutsch, Horney, Marx, and Engels were mostly silent on the topic of rape as a social reality. Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler 774 ratings, 3.86 average rating, 51 reviews Open Preview Women and Madness Quotes Showing 1-28 of 28 For women not to fear rape because we can successfully defend ourselves against it is not anachronistic but revolutionary. These aspects include the connections between madness and issues such as emotion, language, class, suicide, alcohol and 'work'.Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, by Susan Brownmiller (1975). The second half of the article explores certain qualitative aspects of how insanity was construed by the sane, in order to assess the extent of gendering in the day-to-day understanding of mental problems. It further questions whether those with mental problems were really just the victims of an oppressive (professional and male) form of discourse by offering a nuanced analysis of the social context in which mental disability was identified. It seeks to test a common assumption or assertion that 'madness is a female malady because it is experienced by more women than men' (Showalter). It looks first at what quantifiable measures may and may not tell us about the nature of madness in eighteenth-century Scotland and about the relationship between pathologies and the 'normal' structures of society.
The article uses a wide range of archival and literary sources to examine perceptions of mental incapacity.
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