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Tara and Other Lies:
Romance Literature or Post-Rape Syndrome?

A lecture on the domestic violence, including marital rape, in Margaret Mitchell’s personal life and how the romantic, racist, and sexist ideologies embodied in Gone with the Wind reflect a form of personal and cultural "Stockholm Syndrome."  

  • Originally published in On the Issues: A Progressive Woman's Magazine.
  • Maine Women's Studies Conference, Farmington.