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Forty Years after Brownmiller: Prisons for Men, Transgender Inmates, and the Rape of the Feminine

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When Susan Brownmiller published Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape in 1975, few
anticipated that it would become a feminist classic published in more than a dozen languages.
Even fewer imagined that it would foreshadow a proliferation of public discourse on sexual assault
in an array of institutions, including the family, the workplace, higher education, sports, the
Church, and the U.S. military. Entering the word “rape” in Ngram1 reveals that over the 20 years
following the publication of Against Our Will, rape rapidly proliferated as a topic in books. In the
period from 1985 to 2005, so too did the topic of prisons. And further, during the latter part of
that time period, the topic “transgender” began to gain momentum. In 2003, the passage of the
landmark Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) defined prison rape as a national social problem
worthy of federal intervention; it memorialized in public policy the intersection between rape and
prisons, and brought historic attention to the rape of transgender people behind bars.2

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Gender & Society

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Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2016

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English

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08912432

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Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2016, pp. 14–29

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