RaveThe New York Times Book Review... [an] excellent and absorbing work of social and cultural history ... the book also provides an opportunity, set apart from the heated politics of abortion regulation, to reflect on the power we give today to legal authorities whose views about basic matters — like what it means for a man to sexually assault women — are so different from what we think, or want to think we think, now ... A second coda is emblematic of the delights to be found in this book, despite its grim subject.
