“It is impossible to sheath a sword into a vibrating scabbard.”[1]
“Women lie… false accusations are endemic.”[2]
“No does not always mean no.”[3]
“She was asking for it.”[4]
The examples above are some of the more pervasive rape myths around during the 19th Century and well into the 20th Century. The implication of these myths being that a woman cannot be raped if she does not want it to happen, thus, making it extremely difficult to prove it had happened. A few years ago, I wrote an essay on this topic and it is one that has certainly impacted the areas of research that I later went into and I wanted to share my findings here. Continue reading Rape Myths and their Pervasiveness in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Rape myths and the Law
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