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Country United States Publication date 1993 ISBN 0-316-75432-3 Genre Sociology Subject Date rape | 2.8/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 180 Originally published 1993 Page count 180 Publisher Little, Brown and Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardcover and paperback) Similar Katie Roiphe books, Feminism books, Sociology books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus is a 1993 book about date rape by author and journalist Katie Roiphe. Her first book, it was reprinted with a new introduction in 1994. Part of the book had previously been published as an essay, "The Rape Crisis, or 'Is Dating Dangerous?'" in the New York Times Magazine.
Reception
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, writing for The New York Times, called The Morning After a "Book of the Times" and said "it is courageous of Ms. Roiphe to speak out against the herd ideas that campus life typically encourages." In 1993, a negative review by Katha Pollitt titled 'Not Just Bad Sex' was published in The New Yorker. Pollitt's review was in turn criticized by Christina Hoff Sommers in Who Stole Feminism? (1994). The Morning After received a positive response from Camille Paglia, who called it "an eloquent, thoughtful, finely argued book that was savaged from coast to coast by shallow, dishonest feminist book reviewers".