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The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art

ByW.B.D. Editorial Desk· October 8, 2026
The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art

A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change? In September 2014, Emma Su…

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