Practice and Research: Two New Books on Rape

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Intimate Betrayal: Understanding and Responding to the Trauma of Acquaintance Rape, Vernon R. Wiehe and Ann L. Richards. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. 214 pp., $19.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8039-7361-6; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8039-7360-8.

Attitudes Toward Rape: Feminist and Social Psychological Perspectives, Colleen A. Ward. London: Sage, 1995. 232 pp., $19.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8039-8594-0; $65.00 (cloth), 0-8039-8593-2.

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