 | 135. Quoted in Martin,
Battered Wives
, 150; also see Erik Larson, "Paxton Quigley Shows Her Women Students How to Shoot a Man,"
Wall Street Journal
, 4 February 1993; Paxton Quigley,
Armed and Female: Twelve Million Americans Own Guns, Should You?
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990).
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| 136. Nigella Lawson, "Rape Is Horrible but Women Are Also Accountable for Their Actions,"
Los Angeles Times
, 24 October 1993, excerpted from her article in the
Evening Standard
(London), 20 October 1993.
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| 137. Paglia,
Sex, Art, and American Culture
, 6265, 74.
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| 138. See Tong,
Women, Sex, and the Law
, 9192, 10910, 11718; H. E. Baber, "How Bad Is Rape?," in
The Philosophy of Sex
, 2d ed., ed. Alan Soble (Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991), 24649, 25556; also see Victor J. Seidler, "Men, Feminism, and Power," in May and Strikwerda,
Rethinking Masculinity
, 20920.
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| 139. See Roiphe,
The Morning After
, 2950.
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| 140. See Young, "The Sexist Violence against Women Act"; also see Allison and Wrightsman,
Rape
, 232. On rape prevention and its limitations, see Allison and Wrightsman,
Rape
, 24259. For an excellent analysis of the consequences of an overemphasis on men's victimization of women (here referred to as "victimism") from a feminist committed to, not critical of, the view that women are sexually oppressed under patriarchy, see Barry,
Female Sexual Slavery
, 3739; also see Naomi Wolf's distinction between "victim feminism" and "power feminism" in her
Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How to Use It
(New York: Ballentine Books, 1994), 13551.
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| 141. See Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?
, 188226; Roiphe,
The Morning After
, 5184.
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| 142. See Barnett and LaViolette,
It Could Happen to Anyone
, 108; Tong,
Women, Sex, and the Law
, 14546.
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| 143. Paglia,
Vamps and Tramps
, 4245, 368. The study of "victimology" includes what has been called "victim precipitation theory," which looks at the ways in which victims of violence unconsciously encourage or provoke abuse that they consciously resent. However, many feminists are skeptical of whether such theories take into account the ways in which women can be falsely represented as manipulative and masochistic agents of our own demise. For an overview of psychotherapy for battered women, and its risks, see Martin,
Battered Wives
, 15459.
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| 144. Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?
, chap. 9.
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| 145. See Sommers, "Do These Feminists Like Women?" and "Feminist Philosophers Are Oddly Unsympathetic to the Women They Claim to Represent"; also see Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?
, chaps. 1 and 12; Janet Radcliffe Richards,
The Sceptical Feminist: A Philosophical Enquiry
(Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980), chaps. 5 and 10.
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