BY Andra Medea AND Kathleen Thompson

INTRODUCTION: “There are a number of reasons not to read this book: you have never been raped; you know it will never happen to you; if it did, you know you'd never be able to remember what to do or how to defend yourself; you'd rather not think about the possibility of being raped; you or someone you know has been raped, and you want to forget about it. These are precisely the reasons you should read this book. Rape, and our society's attitude toward rape, affects every woman in this country. No woman, whether or not she has ever felt threatened by an actual rape, can ignore the problem.

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX: NEW YORK. 1974. 136p.