Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (102 page)

Annan on Ripper as "hero of horror":
New
York
Review
of Books,

Dec.
7, 1970,
p.
39.

McCabe on Ripper, "that great hero," etc.: San Francisco Chronicle, Oct.
7, 1971,
p.
43·

Wilson on Ripper: Colin Wilson, A Casebook of Murder, London:

Leslie Frewin,
1969,
pp.
133-148.

Wilson disgusted by lesbian murder: Wilson, pp.
223-225.

". . . sexual act has a close affinity with murder": Wilson, p.
220.
newspaper feature writers rehashed the story: See Kermit Jaediker, "Was DeSalvo the Boston Strangler?" New York Sunday News, Jan.
6, 1974,
Leisure, pp.
20-21.

"Keith Richard sways": Don Heckman, "As Cynthia Sagittarius Says-'Feeling . . . I mean, isn't this what the Rolling Stones are all about?' " New York Times Magazine, July
16, 1972,
p.
38.

"WeH, you heard about The Boston-": "Midnight Rambler," words and music by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard.
©
1969
ABKCO Music, Inc. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

tragedy at Altamont: For a good print account, with pictures, see Ralph
J.
Gleason, "Aquarius Wept,"
Esquire,
Aug.
1970,
pp.
84
ff.

Amboy Dukes: The rock group as advertised in Rolling Stone, May
27, 1971,
p.
64;
the book: Irving Shulman, The
Amboy
Dukes, New York: Doubleday,
1947.

Thompson's first defense of the Angels: Hunter S. Thompson, "The Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders," The Nation, May
17, i965,
pp.
522-526.

continued mythologizing: Hunter S. Thompson,
Hell's Angels,
New York: Random House,
i967,
throughout; quoted material appears on pp.
i90-196.

". . . got picked up on a phony rape charge'.': J. Anthony Lukas, "The Prince of Gonzo" (More), a journalism review, Nov.
1972,

p. 7. Another version, which has Thompson in jail on the phony rape charge, appears in Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the
Bus,
New York: Ballantine,
1974,
p.
334·

Dick Turpin who "raped an occasional servant girl": Wilson, p.
60.
"After the Sack-the Saturnalia": Edgcumb Pinchon, Viva Villa!, New York: Harcourt, Brace,
1933,
p.
i
31.

". . . I believe in rape": Barbara Gelb, So
Short
a
Time,
New York: Norton,
i9n,
p. 66. Interestingly, Reed's mentor, Lincoln Steffens, seemed to have a different view of rape. Commenting on President Wilson's decision to send the marines to Vera Cruz, Steffens re flected, "We Americans can't seem to get it that you can't commit

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rape a little." (Justin Kaplan, Lincoln Steffens, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974, p. 21i.)

rape of Villa's sister and blood vengeance: For four different versions

of this legend see Pinchon: Haldeen Braddy,
Cock
of the
Walk;
Louis Stevens, Here Comes Pancho ViIIa; and John Reed, Insurgent Mexico. Reed alone discounts the rape of Villa's sister as probable fiction; he also discounts Villa's own rapes as well.

Abe Reles: Burton
B.
Turkus and Sid Feder, Murder, Inc.,
The

Story of "the Sydicate," New York: Farrar, Straus, 1951, pp. 111-112; New York Times, Nov. 13, 1941, p. 29.

Tijerina story: "Policemen Accused in Gang Rape," Washington Post, Oct. 24, 1971, p. A-30. See also
E I Grito del
Norte (Espanola, N.M.) special issue, Oct. 28, 1971, which bears the front-page head line, "They put me in prison, they called me a 'danger to the com munity' and then they raped my wife!" Page 11 of this same issue retells the Villa story under the headline, "An Old Tactic." See also
EI Grito
del Norte, Dec. 6, 1971, p. 2, for more of the same.

"If
I'm old enough to kill": Harold Robbins, The Adventurers,

New York: Pocket Books, 1966, pp. 39, 49·

"At its most profound level": Paul D. Zimmerman, "Kubrick's Bril liant Vision," Newsweek, Jan. 3, 1972, pp. 28-31.

"Alex symbolizes man": Bernard Weinraub, "'Kubrick Tells What Makes 'Clockwork Orange' Tick," New York Times, Jan.
4,
1972. Footnote, "As a child
I
dreamed": Carlos Fuentes, "The Discreet Charm of Luis Bufiuel," New
York
Times Magazine, Mar.
n,
1973,
p.
87.

"psychopathic rapists": Victoria Sullivan, "Does 'Frenzy' Degrade

Women?" New
York
Times, July 30, 1972.

"Hitchcock's graphic": Paul D. Zimmerman, "Return of the Master," Newsweek, June 26, 1972, p. 83.

". . . raped my picture": Time, Dec. 27, 1971, p. 49.

twenty rape scenes in two years: Aljean Harmetz, "Rape-an Ugly Movie Trend," New York
Times,
Sept. 30, 1973.

Deliverance metaphor for rape of the environment: Newsweek's Paul D. Zimmerman identified with neither rapists nor victims and didn't like the movie at all (Newsweek, Aug. 7, 1972, p. 6i ). Time's reviewer dwelt on the enviromental aspects and foggily concluded, "It is nature in all its untamable forces that finally rapes man."
( Time,
Aug. 7, 1972,
P:
75.)

Footnote, rape sequence in The Godfather: Mario Puzo, The God

father, New York: Fawcett Crest, 1969, pp. 29-33. Eleanor Perry and Cat Dancing: Harrnetz, Joe. cit.

"On top of you this morning": Morty Sklar, "Rape," New York Quarterly, No.
11
(Summer 1972), p. 86.

Mailer on aggressive sperm: See Norman Mailer, The Prisoner of Sex, Boston: Little, Brown, 197i.

"a little bit of rape": Time, Nov. 6, 1972, p. 70.

rape as buffoonery: Ed Bullins, The Reluctant Rapist, New York: Harper
&
Row, 1973. Quotations I use appear on pp. 70-72, 82.

A skyjacker is analyzed: David G. Hubbard, The Skyjacker, New York: Collier Books, 1973, Chap. 13.

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police records of two other skyjackers: Newsweek, Nov. 20, i972, p. 35.

Four armed men: Pranay Gupte, "Governess is Raped by One of

4
Robbers in Greenwich Home," New
York
Times, Aug. 31, 1973, p. 29.

Two Bronx teen-agers: "Youth Sentenced for Raping Victim in

Spouse's Presence," New York Times, May 18, 1974, p. 63.

Three convicts escape: "3 Convicts in Killing Wave Flee into Forest in Texas," New
York Times,
Aug. 26, 1974, p. 60; "3 Convicts Are Sighted in Texas as Hundreds of Police Close In," New York Times, Aug. 27, 1974, p.
1; "2
Convicts Boast to Police of Crime Wave in Texas," New York Times, Aug. 28, 1974, p. 15.

1. VICTIMS:
   THE
   SETTING
   

   Mae West, "Funny, every man I meet": My Little
   Chickadee,
   1940. "You can't thread a moving needle": Balzac, "The Maid of Portil lon" or "How the Portillon Beauty Scored Over the Magistrate" ( Honore de Balzac, Droll Stories, trans. from the French by Alec Brown, London: The Folio Society, 196i, pp. 3 57-362 ) .
   

   ". . . as a raped woman might struggle": John Updike,
   Couples,
   

   New York: Knopf, 1968, p. 415.
   

   ". . . a woman who changed her mind af terward": John Updike,
   

   Rabbit
   Redux, New York: Knopf, 1971, p. 37.
   

   "It
   was an act that could be performed": Ayn Rand,
   The
   Fountain head (1943), Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968, p. 220.
   

   "I've been raped": Rand, p. 223.
   

   Freud on female masochism: Sigmund Freud, "The Economic Prob lem in Masochism" ( 1924), Collected Papers, London: Hogarth Press, 1948, Vol. 2, pp. 255-268.
   

   

   Deutsch on female masochism, rape: Helene Deutsch,
   The
   Psy chology of Women, New York: Grune
   &
   Stratton, 1944, 1945, Vol. I, pp. 219-278 (Chap. 6, "Feminine Passivity"; Chap. 7, "Feminine Masochism") , Vol. II, pp.
   77-105
   (Chap. 4, "The Psychology of the Sexual Act") . Individual citations follow.
   

   "service to the species": Deutsch, II, p. 77.
   

   clitoris and vagina an "overendowment": Deutsch, II, p. 78. "physiologically determined": Deutsch, II, p. 80.
   

   "transfer . . . never completely successful": Deutsch, II, p. 78. "The 'undiscovered' vagina": Deutsch, II, pp. 79-80. "completely passive vagina": Deutsch, I, p. 230.
   

   male organ does the awakening: Deutsch, I, p. 233.
   

   ". . . feminine need to be overpowered": Deutsch, II, p. 82. ". . . frequent fear of coitus": Deutsch, II, p. 92.
   

   "Woman's entire psychologic preparation": Deutsch, I, p. 277. she flees, must be won or overpowered: Deutsch, I, p. 22i.
   

   "It
   is no exaggeration to say": Deutsch, I, p. 222. "Every time I see":
   Ibid.
   

   copulation originally an act of male violence: Ibid.
   

   "The powerful embrace": Deutsch, I, p. 223. analysis of Leda and Zeus: Ibid.
   

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1. SOURCE NOTES
   

   tokens of virginity required in Hebrew marriage contract: Deu teronomy 22:13-21.
   

   "passive-masochistic attitude": Deutsch, I, p.
   2
   54. "In dreams the rape is symbolic": Deutsch, I, p. 255.
   

   Horney argued that female masochism was culturally, not biologically, induced: Karen Horney, "The Problem of Feminine Masochism" (1935) , Feminine Psychology, New York: Norton, 1967, pp. 214-233; Karen Horney,
   The
   Neurotic Personality of Our Time, New York: Norton, 1937, p. 280; Karen Horney,
   New
   Ways
   in
   Psycho-
   1nalysis,
   New York: Norton, 1939, pp. 113-117.
   

   Horney on young girls' "instinctive" rape dreams: Karen Horney, "The Denial of the Vagina" ( 1933 ) ,
   Feminine
   Psychology, pp. 154-155.
   

   "In other words we must assume": Ibid.
   

1. THE CONSCIOUS RAPE FANTASY
   

   ( 324) "The conscious masochistic rape fantasies": Deutsch, I, p. 225.
   

   1. Footnote, Homey, "The possibility of rape":
      Feminine
      Psychology,
      

      PP·
      z30-233.
      

      ( 326) "I was naked, strapped": Viva, Superstar, New York: Putnam,
      i970,
      

      p. 27.
      

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   2. "My self, woman, womb": Gunther Stuhlmann, ed.,
      The
      Diary of Anals
      Nin,
      Vol. 2, 1934-1939, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1967,
      

      184.
      

      ( 326) 'Sometimes in the street": Nin, p. 209.
      

      ( 327) "mastered, wanted to lose": Nin, p. 7.
      

   3. poems of Sylvia Plath: "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" appear in Sylvia Plath, Ariel, New York: Harper
      &
      Row, 1966, pp.
      6-<),
      49-51.
      

   ( 327) Deutsch, "certain amount of masochism": Deutsch, I, p. 276.
   

   ( 328) Augustine on Lucretia, rape and suicide: Augustine,
   City
   of God ( 414), Book I, Chaps. 16-19 ( trans. by Henry Bettenson; ed. by David Knowles; Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin, 1972, pp. 26-31) .
   

   ( 329) Aquinas on rape: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae ( 1266-1273), 2, 2, Question 154, Article 12 ( New York: Blackfriars-McGraw-Hill,
   

   1968, Vol. 43, p. 249) .
   

   (330) virgin martyrs: John Coulson, ed.,
   The Saints,
   New York: Hawthorn Books, 1958; Thurston and Attwater, eds., Butler's Lives of the
   

   Saints, New York:
   J.
   J.
   Kennedy
   &
   Sons, 1956.
   

   ( 330) Maria Goretti: In addition to Coulson and Thurston and Attwater, I have drawn on the following sources: Maria Cecilia Buehrle, Saint Maria Goretti, Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., 1950; Alfred MacConastair, Lily of the Marshes, New York: Macmillan, 1951; Pietro DiDonato, The Penitent, New York: Hawthorn Books, 1962. Individual citations follow.
   

   ( 330) cause of Bavarian victim displaced: DiDonato, pp. 147-148.
   

   ( 331) newspaper account of Serenelli at Maria's beatification: "Slayer Attends Girl's Beatification 45 Years Af ter He Murdered Her," New York Times, Apr. 28, 1947, p. z5.
   

   ( 331) denial of Serenelli's attendance: DiDonato, p. 159.
   

   ( 331) speech of Pope Pius at beatification: Thurston and Attwater, Vol. III, pp. 28-29. See also New Yorl< Times, June 25, 1950, p. 9, for simiTar speech by Pius at Maria's canonization.
   

   

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   speediest canonization and largest crowd: Buehrle, p.
   i
   58; Thurston and Attwater, Joe.
   cit.
   

   sturdy, robust little peasant girl: DiDonato, p. 185.
   

   iconographic idealization: L'Art Sacre ( Paris ) , May-June 1951,
   

   P.·
   14.
   

   'exceptionally beautiful": Coulson, p. 323.
   

   "beautiful Jewish girls" in Chmelnitzky pogroms: S. M. Dubnow,
   History of
   the Jews
   in
   Russia and Poland, trans. from the Russian by
   I.
   Friedlander, Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1916, Vol. I, p. 147.
   

   Soviet propaganda: Genia Demianova, Comrade Genia, preface by Ronald Scarfe, London: Nicholson
   &
   Watson, 1941.
   

   suicide poem from ninety-three girls:
   The
   Reconstructionist ( New
   

   York ) , Mar. 5, 1943, p. 23.
   

   Footnote, Agostina Pietrantoni: "Pope Paul Beatifies Nun Who Was Slain in Attempted Rape," New
   York
   Times, Nov. 12, 1972.