Social issues & processes
Vergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens (Rape. Aspects of a Crime)
Nautilus Flugschrift
by Mithu M. Sanyal
Description
Why do we speak and think about rape in the way that we do? Cultural critic Mithu
Sanyal has written the first comprehensive analysis of the crime that shapes society's
attitudes towards gender, race and vulnerability.
What exactly is rape culture? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? Why
is it so hard to think of men as victims of rape?
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Rights Information
Rights sold: English language world (Verso), Danish (Tiderne Skifter),
Swedish (Ordfront), Spanish (Reservoir Books/Penguin).
Winner of the Geisteswissenschaften International Award 2017.
Why do we speak and think about rape in the way that we do? Cultural critic Mithu
Sanyal has written the first comprehensive analysis of the crime that shapes society's
attitudes towards gender, race and vulnerability.
What exactly is rape culture? Why do we expect victims to be irreparably damaged? Why
is it so hard to think of men as victims of rape?
Author Biography
Mithu M. Sanyal is an award-winning broadcaster, academic and author. Her first book,
“Vulva – a cultural history of the female genitalia” (Berlin, 2009) has been translated into
five languages: Danish (Tiderne Skifter), Spanish (Anagrama), Italian (Marco Tropea),
Swedish (Epix Bokförlag), and Hungarian (Bookart). Her debut novel Identitti (Munich
2021) became a longtime Spiegel Bestseller and was shortlisted for Deutscher Buchpreis.
Mithu Sanyal was awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize 2021 for her literary and essayist work.
Edition Nautilus GmbH
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- Publisher Edition Nautilus
- Publication Date November 2020
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783960542452
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 18 EUR
- Pages256
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleVergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens
- Original Language AuthorsGerman
- EditionNautilus Flugschriften
- Copyright Year2020
