Given this cultural construction, legal reforms alone cannot reduce the extent of sexual assault. If rape is imbedded in power imbalances between men and women and across classes and races, we need to address these social inequalities. To do so requires breaking the cycle of male entitlement to women, the sexual objectification of women, and the structural obstacles to gender and race equality. We also need to rethink the cultural associations of sexuality with aggression and women as objects of acquisition.
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| — | Estelle B. Freedman, No Turning Back: The History Of Feminism and The Future of Women (via nodivision) |
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