A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape. Thanks to Title IX cases, #MeToo, and #Times Up, the issue of rape seems to be constantly in the news. But our thinking on the subject has a long history, one that cultural critic Mithu Sanyal elegantly reconstructs. She narrates a history spanning from Lucretia--whose legendary rape and suicide was said to be the downfall of the last Roman king--to second-wave feminism,...