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Dark doings down South. For one thing, quite a few women in the small town of Ellen ton, Ala., are susceptible to rape. When the Ellenton citizens are not raping, they are running straight through the whole bloody catalogue of violence-punch-outs, castrations and murders. Ellenton is so thoroughly rotten that not even the Jaycees come out of hiding...
...during the courts-martial or by newsmen, notably Seymour M. Hersh, a reporter for the New York Times. But the Peers report, for all its official prose and military circumlocution, holds its own special fascination: the Army, says the report, was guilty of "individual and group acts of murder, rape, sodomy, maiming and assault on noncombatants and the mistreatment and killing of detainees...
...shrink will not stand up. Here he is, at a tenants' meeting of Co-Op Village, which he has agreed to address on the psychology of rape. He just sits on the rostrum, arms folded, waiting for his check. Only when one of the tenants breathlessly delivers his fee does he start in-and what a start. He leaps up, shoots a blank pistol out into the audience, frightens the women, describes instead the physiology of rape in such heated detail that tremblings because of the shots are replaced with giggles. He asks for a volunteer from the audience...
...clearinghouse on women's affairs and "as a pressure group to assure that all women be granted greater rights." The center is sponsoring a variety of projects this fall, including a series of medical self-help groups; a program of informal workshops dealing with such issues as birth control, rape and female sexuality; a course in self-defense; and a number of consciousnessraising groups focusing on personal and political issues...
Perhaps the most valuable service this book performs is to help instill in all women a sense of sexual self-determination. In rape victims, wondering what they should have done leads to guilt. In any woman, lack of a strong and secure knowledge of her own sexual rights: her right to question an intent, to scream, to make a fuss, to stand up and fight back, is a hazard that no training in karate, no can of mace can overcome...