In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.