Third and final essay in Restorative Romance’s series on rape, the law, and bodice rippers. This one close-reads Gaffney’s To Have and To Hold, to really productive effect.

https://restorativeromance.substack.com/p/not-retribution-or-rehabilitation
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Second part of Restorative Romance’s very thoughtful critique series on rape, fiction, law, and narratives of history and progress: https://restorativeromance.substack.com/p/precedents-and-citing-decisions

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The first part of what looks to be an amazing and incisive series on the complicated history of what we call bodice rippers in the context of laws against marital rape in the late 20th/early 21st century. Not a light essay, but wide-ranging and compelling.

https://restorativeromance.substack.com/p/ripper-restoration-part-1

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