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Your front door lock is broken and your landlord doesn’t give a damn. And someone gets in and rapes you. Jana Leo’s exploration of the public and private spaces in Rape New York merges the vulnerability of the city with that of the body itself. A text that touches on urban planning, gentrification, slumlords, as well as rape and its physical, emotional, and legal repercussions.

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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. A Nonviolent Rape
  1. A Nonviolent Rape
  2. pp. 3-24
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  1. How an Uneventful Day and Place Became Eventful
  2. pp. 25-27
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  1. Before and After a Nonviolent Rape
  1. How I Left Harlem
  2. pp. 31-35
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  1. How I Had Ended Up in Harlem
  2. pp. 36-47
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  1. How I Lost the Feeling of Being at Home
  2. pp. 48-55
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  1. How and Why I Started a Lawsuit Against My Landlord
  2. pp. 56-68
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  1. The Criminal Procedure and the Civil Lawsuit
  1. How the Assailant Was Caught
  2. pp. 71-81
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  1. “Domestophobia” and PrisonLand
  2. pp. 82-97
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  1. How the Assailant Was Convicted For Two Rapes
  2. pp. 98-110
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  1. The Civil Lawsuit For Improper Security
  2. pp. 111-122
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  1. Defeated by New York
  1. One of New York’s“Ten Worst Landlords” Faces Federal Charges
  2. pp. 125-129
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  1. Defeated by New York, or, Why I Came to New York
  2. pp. 130-139
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  1. Afterword
  2. pp. 141-142
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 143-144
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