... that Nina Wu is not a #MeToo film. The chapter then considers Nina Wu’s ethical potential to viscerally prompt viewers to rethink rape culture in the specific context of the Asian media and screen industries, with dedicated focus on Taiwan. The analysis of the film’s aesthetics...

...This chapter continues the discussion of rape and sexual assault imagery, but takes a wider and more theoretical perspective, considering how films that present rape in long takes crystallise all the supporting and critiquing arguments around rape imagery more broadly. I suggest that rape imagery...

...Chapter 2 further discusses how Shakespeare explores the destructiveness of ‘will’ when it becomes ‘lust in action’ (the theme of Sonnet 129). In ‘The Rape of Lucrece’ Tarquin’s assault on Lucrece combines urgent sexual desire with a misogynistic demonstration of male power, partly incited...

... is the body rapt, and raped, as he experiences the sublime terror of being swept up and violated by forces at the edge of human understanding. The tyrant is both the rapist and the raped, seized by passions he cannot, or will not, control, tortured in “restless ecstasy” that drives him to greater violations...

...This chapter continues the discussion of ethics and spectatorship by reconsidering the role of violence in the films of Michael Haneke, specifically The Piano Teacher (Austria, 2001) and The White Ribbon (Austria, 2009). It focuses on two key scenes addressing rape...

... in criminal trials during the period, followed by an analysis of the law of hamesucken as found in treatises and the practice of the Justiciary Court. It also looks at the 1752 trial of James Macgregor before concluding with some remarks on marital rape. Lockhart argued that neither law nor practice had...

.... And nowhere was this presentation more explicit than in Kane’s Blasted, with successive scenes of rape and sexual abuse. This chapter re-reads Kane’s play in the closer context of familiar, and ongoing, debates regarding the relation of law and gender, and more particularly still...

... candidate for Missouri, about ‘legitimate rape’, Gellar-Goad argues that modern manifestations of this sort of misogynistic misinformation are even more harmful than ancient ones. Akin Todd politics rape hegemonic masculinity toxic masculinity violence binary sexual opposition domination harm...

...This chapter argues that Lucrece does the best she can — and that Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece attends closely to the complex implications of rape, and to the drawbacks of a sexual and state politics which ignores consent. While the poem focuses on the personal significance...

... deals fully with how his plays and poems treat the issue of rape and sexual coercion—the potential violence of male desire. After exploring the dark side of ‘will’, the book analyses the playwright’s critique of idealistic Petrarchan and Neoplatonic conceptions of love that tend to bypass sexual desire...

...This chapter focuses on sexual violence by German troops, which was a widespread reality in the Soviet Union and included coerced disrobement, sexual torture, rape, and sexual enslavement committed by individuals or groups. Women and girls but also boys and men suffered bodily and psychological...

...This chapter takes current debates-such as 1) whether soldiers commit less rape when there are race pollution taboos; 2) how we can capture the different, often conflicting, interests of military groups with regard to sexual violence perpetrated by their soldiers; 3) what is sexual about sexual...

...This chapter explores to what extent Netflix’s binge-able programming strategy and its effect on serialised narrative structures open up new avenues for interrogating rape culture in popular storytelling. Taking two Netflix original series – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Unbelievable – as case...

...This chapter employs the epistemic dichotomy between manifest and operative concepts (cf. Haslanger, Jenkins) to analyse the inset narrative of Leucothoe’s rape by Sol in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the context of the victim’s own belief, Roman law, and cultural ideologies influenced...

... Hammer and epistemologies of rape by Nickie Phillips and Sara Projansky. abuse class consent enslavement Pohlhaus Jr G sex act sexual abuse Antony Marcus Antonius Batiatus character in Spartacus 2010–14 desire embodiment epistemic injustice Kubrick S Lucretia character in Spartacus 2010–14...

...This chapter examines the overlooked conservative sexual and gender politics of two films about rape. Focusing on the narrative framing of trauma and victimhood in The Brown Bunny and Free Will, it argues that transgressive art films often present contradictory...

... sexual relationship with a criminal. Through the parallels between mother and daughter, the novel underscores a double bind for the late eighteenth-century woman: an extramarital encounter must either be legal rape or a woman’s punishable transgression, with no room for grey areas. This essay argues...

...During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. This book explores the complexity and consequences of this shift...

...Sex and the Nazi Soldier is the first monograph that comprehensively examines rape and other forms of sexual violence perpetrated by German Wehrmacht soldiers and SS troops in the occupied Soviet Union but also considers sexual exploitation, from visits to secret prostitutes or officially...