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By Carolyn M. Byerly
Rape keeps insinuating itself into our reality, by way of women’s protests and publicized stories. Emma Sulkowicz carries a mattress identical to the one on which she says she was anally raped by a classmate at Columbia University in order to prod the administration into punishing her perpetrator. Stories of gang rapes and assaults by male athletes, fraternity brothers, and high-profile entertainers pepper the weekly news. But rape is not a new problem or story. It has been an anchor issue of feminism for half a century, and it is on today’s news agenda because feminists put it there.
Source: The Dialectic of Rape
