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Word: agent noun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1989-1989
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...raped child. Why are "incest" and "sexual abuse" always in categories separate from "rape"? "Incest" is a noun, not a verb; there's no such thing as "to incest," and the victim and agent of incest are indistinguishable "committers of incest." "Committing incest" in our language is conceived as merely a violation of the accepted law and morality, not of the privacy of a woman's or child's body...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: The Changing Rhetoric of Rape | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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