... such feminists. Many see heterosexual intercourse as nothing more than the "eroticisation of women's subordination", with others implying, as bell hooks notes, that "all genital contact between women and men is rape". Such theorists would suggest that this violence is perpetuated through methods such as pornography, which pushes women into a role of masochism and, ...widens the range of behaviour considered acceptable from men in heterosexual intercourse. Adrienne Rich is very critical of Susan Brownmiller, who in her work "Against Our Own Will: Men, Women and Rape" attempts to remove the concept of rape from its sexual sphere, suggesting that "rape is violence, intercourse isof sexuality". Rich, along with MacKinnon, suggests that rather than seeing rape as a form of violence, one should instead look at it as a natural part heterosexuality, as something that is made normal by men's oppression of women. As such theorists believe that women are ...

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