Thanks for the link--great article. You definitely handled the rape scene well in your book.
It's quite timely for me as I'm considering having the heroine of my current novel-in-progress suffer an attempted rape. In this case, I'm mainly using it to show that she is considered an "uppity woman" in a mostly patriarchal society and this minor antagonist, a man she has to work with, thinks he can put her in her place. (He also has made all sorts of wrong assumptions about What Kind of Woman she is that makes him think she deserves it, but that's a long story.) I think she's actually going to defend herself with a knife or razor and then have to flee because she's afraid she's killed him.
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Date: 2010-07-09 01:47 pm (UTC)It's quite timely for me as I'm considering having the heroine of my current novel-in-progress suffer an attempted rape. In this case, I'm mainly using it to show that she is considered an "uppity woman" in a mostly patriarchal society and this minor antagonist, a man she has to work with, thinks he can put her in her place. (He also has made all sorts of wrong assumptions about What Kind of Woman she is that makes him think she deserves it, but that's a long story.) I think she's actually going to defend herself with a knife or razor and then have to flee because she's afraid she's killed him.