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Shields spoke to about 40 people on "Crimes Against Women" as part of the Women's Program at Suffolk, and discussed rape in terms of what she called a "cultural" and "historical" tradition in American life...
Shields cited statistics from FBI crime bulletins which show that a rape occurs in the U.S. once every 13 minutes. Other figures indicate that most rapes are committed in the home, either by forcibie entry into a residence or by a member of one's family, she explained...
...simply cannot divorce rape from the fabric of a society, where on the top of the newspaper page you read about a nation we have been raping for years, and on the bottom you read about hitchhiking murders," Shield said...
Discussing the ways in which the press covers rape stories. Shields referred to The Boston Globe in her attack on newspaper reporting...
Shields concluded her talk by noting the increasing number of self-defense programs for women, and ended by citing the new Cambridge-based group. Women Against Rape, an outgrowth of the Women's Center...