Estelle B. Freedman

Freedman, Estelle, Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation

Estelle Freedman highlights the forces that have shaped the definition of rape in the US, namely political power and social privilege. She outlines the history of how the conception of rape has evolved since the 1870s to the 1930s, when both racial segregation and the women’s suffrage movement influenced how rape was understood.