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Title: A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion by Randy Thornhill ISBN: 0-262-70083-2 Publisher: Bradford Book Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.69 (67 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent reading
Comment: As a woman, a feminist, and a sociologist by training, I still find nothing offensive in this book. Thornhill and Palmer have tackled one of the most sensitive and inflammatory topics that exist and it is only natural that they will receive a lot of knee-jerk reactions to it. However, this book is well-written, well-researched and thought-provoking. Whether you ultimately believe their theory or not, T and P will make you seriously consider some of your assumptions about rape.
I'm not sure if some of the other reviewers have actually read this book, because nowhere in it do the authors assert that women are to blame for their rapes or that they provoke them through sexy clothing. They do suggest that sexy clothing might be one of many factors that lead men to rape and that women may CHOOSE to use this knowledge when deciding how to dress for certain situations. Why this particular issue is so offensive boggles me. I have had many people suggest that I take a women's self-defense class to help me avoid and/or survive an attack. But that suggestion in no way implies that if I *don't* take a self-defense class I am somehow responsible for causing my own rape. Similarly, women can arm themselves with the knowledge that how they dress may have an effect on how some men behave towards them, without being responsible for that behavior in any way.
I'd advise anyone interested in this topic to read the book carefully and thoroughly. Does the book prove that rape is an evolutionary adaptation? Of course not, but it certainly offers some compelling evidence and an interesting alternative to current theories on rape.
Rating: 2
Summary: It does not help understand WHY men rape
Comment: Take a good look at the title "A NATURAL History of Rape"; just ask is Rape natural behavior for man or human? Do you need scientific statistics historically (?)to know it is unnatural inhuman behavior! So what is the book trying to advance in scientific and social circles? That it is natural and there are biological bases for it; and what does it matter whether the reason behind rape is need for power or need for sexual gratification or both?
Is one reason more acceptable than another? If man or woman does it for sex it is OK, it is in the biology or genes!
Perhaps this book legitimizes and gives greater social-scientific acceptance of something we would not normally accept, in the same way society is made to accepts or dilute its resistance to violence, pornography, wanton-sex, pornography, propaganda of all kinds in the politics, media, science, and the marketplace!
The quality of human life is eroded everyday through rape of our minds (by implanting memes or mind-viruses like this). Our Natural Human Self, which has a cosmic/divine electromagnetic connection with our physical-animal-instinctual-impulsive self is being eroded everyday through the pollution of food chain, air, water, oceans and our bodies ridden by foreign elements in the name of vaccine-public health drugs (thinktwice.com)and our minds numbed by dumb TV and media,solicitations of all kind.
Human are the only species given free will (and we have been equated with animals precisely to put a blinder on that) and how each of us use our free will to advance or regress ourselves evolution wise says a lot of who we chose to be.
Only truth will set you free from all falsehood and enslavement. The funding and proponents for this kind of "Scientific" work comes from special interest (a few who rules the mass through our herd mentality). We have to remember there is much secret-cultish, prejudicial, superstitious and coercive behavior within mainstream science and technology. Not everything that comes under the name of science, advance it. It is actually intended to do the opposite: Thy shall not think for or by thyself!
Rating: 4
Summary: technical
Comment: A technical book intended for those conversant with modern ideas in biology (sexual selection, evoltionarily stable strategies, genetic linkage, etc). The scientific background is not explained, because this is not a book for the general reader.
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Title: Evolution, Gender, and Rape by Cheryl Brown Travis ISBN: 0262700905 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker ISBN: 0670031518 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Homicide (Foundations of Human Behavior) by Martin Daly, Margo Wilson ISBN: 020201178X Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter Pub. Date: 01 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller ISBN: 0449908208 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Transforming a Rape Culture by Emilie Buchwald, Pamela R. Fletcher, Martha Roth ISBN: 1571312048 Publisher: Milkweed Editions Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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