When you die you’ll go to hell
Wendy Steiner, 27 May 1993
Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes
by Helen Benedict.
Oxford, 309 pp., £22.50, February 1993,0 19 506680 4 Show More
by Helen Benedict.
Oxford, 309 pp., £22.50, February 1993,
Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom
by Gregory Matoesian.
Polity, 256 pp., £45, February 1993,0 7456 1036 6 Show More
by Gregory Matoesian.
Polity, 256 pp., £45, February 1993,
“... where verbal insult is injury, punishable as crime. Helen Benedict’s Virgin and Vamp and Gregory Matoesian’s Reproducing Rape are part of this assault: they seek to combat rape by reforming the way it is described. Although Benedict’s book is a journalist’s critique of rape coverage in the press and ... ”