Book Reviews: After the Lovedeath: sexual violence and the making of culture

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LAWRENCE KRAMER, 1997 Berkeley, University of California Pres 281
pp 0 520 210123 hb UKPd1995

Kramer uses 19th hundred works of literature, music and, in single case,
fine art, the two to develop a theory to explain the existence of sexual
violence in our times, and to tender a strategy for mitigating and
eliminating this violence. The proceed is a book with a remarkable
degree of personality, and potential appeal to those working not sole
in the areas of sex violence and cultural constructions of sex
relations, but also to musicologists and those belong toed with the ...