Patricia Searles is professor of sociology and women's studies at University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, where Ronald J. Berger is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program. Patricia Searles is professor of sociology and women's studies at University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, where Ronald J. Berger is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program.

• Part 1 Feminist foundations for the study of rape and society: rape poem, Marge Piercy; the trauma of rape - the case of Ms X, Diana E.H. Russell; the social context of rape - sexual scripts and motivation, Steve Jackson; sex and violence - a perspective, Catharine A. MacKinnon; hidden rape - sexual aggression and victimization in a national sample of students in higher education, Mary P. Koss. Part 2 Why men rape: Jay - an "armchair" rapist, Timothy Beneke; "riding the bull at Gilley's" - convicted rapists describe the rewards of rape, Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla; considering sex offenders - a model of sexual addiction, Judith Lewis Herman; pornography as sex discrimination, Catharine A. MacKinnon. Part 3 Varieties of rape and sexual assault: child sexual abuse, Ellen Bass; these are the things I remember, Maggie Hoyal; white man wants a black piece - the case of Sonia Morrell, Diana E.H. Russell; fraternities and rape on campus, Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer; types of marital rape, David Finkelhor and Kersti Yllo; the sexual politics of murder, Jane Caputi; making female bodies the battlefield, Susan Brownmiller; dispatch from Bosnia-Herzegovina - a 17-year-old survivor testifies to systematic rape, Nana Kadic; for a paralyzed woman raped and murdered while alone in her own apartment, Leslie A. Donoval. Part 4 Rape and the legal system: is it rape?, Susan Estrich; Jack and Ken, Timothy Beneke; discrediting victims' allegations of sexual assault - prosecutorial accounts of case rejections, Lisa Frohmann; rape, racism and the law, Jennifer Wriggins; rape-law reform - its nature, origins and impact, Ronald J. Berger et al. Part 5 Surviving and preventing rape: rape trauma syndrome, Ann Wolbert Burgess; when you grow up an abused child, Christina Glendenning; raped - a male survivor breaks his silence, Fred Pelka; and he turned around and ran away, Gail Groves; conclusion, Patricia Searles and Ronald J. Berger; "Our Stunning Harvest" (poem), Ellen Bass.