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48 Studies: Mary Koss and S. L. Cook, “Finding the Facts,” in R.J. Gelles, ed., Current Controversies on Family Violence (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993), pp. 104-19; Diana Russell, Sexual Exploitation (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1984); Marshall Clinard and Robert Meier, Deviant Behavior (Ft. Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1995), pp. 167-68; Caryl Rivers, Slick Spins, Fractured Facts (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 130-31. Critics: Neil Gilbert, “The Phantom Epidemic of Sexual Assault,” The Public Interest 103 (1991): 54-65; Katie Roiphe, The Morning After:Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993).
49 Anita Manning, “Clemson Case Shows Prosecution Difficulties,” USA Today, 29 October 1996, p. D2; Nicole Peradotto, “A Little Pill That Brings Devastating Consequences,” Buffalo News, 14 August 1996, p. C1.
50 Ilsa Lottes and Martin Weinberg, “Sexual Coercion Among University Students,” Journal of Sex Research 34 (1997): 67-76; Koss and Cook, “Finding the Facts.” Commonplace date rape was not entirely ignored by the media. See, e.g., a segment on ABC, “Good Morning America,” 14 November 1997.
51 John Carpenter, “Warning on Date-Rape Drugs,” Chicago Sun-Times, 14 August 1997, p. 1; ABC, “Good Morning America,” 12 September 1996. For other examples see Cindy Horswell, “Among Claims for ’Date-Rape Drug’ Is a New One,” Houston Chronicle, 15 September 1996, p. 1; CNN, “Impact,” 22 June 1997.
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1 Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), p. 14.
2 I do not use the term metaphoric to refer to the agonizing symptoms that sufferers endure, but rather to how the illnesses that those symptoms are said to constitute are put to use in political and social discourse. Nor do I intend to suggest, by virtue of my assessment of published studies, that future research will not support what currently appear to be unlikely theories about these ailments.
3 See Arthur Kleinman, Social Origins of Distress and Disease (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986); Norma Ware and Arthur Kleinman, “Culture and Somatic Experience,” Psychosomatic Medicine 54 (1992): 546-60; Abba Terr, “Clinical Ecology,” Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 79 (1987): 423-26,; Tom Lutz, American Nervousness (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991); Simon Wessely, “The History of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” in S. Straus, ed., Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994), pp. 3-44; and Susan Abbey and Paul Garfinkel, “Neurasthenia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” American Journal ofPsychiatry148 (1991): 1638—46.
4 Jean Baudrillard, TheGulf War Did Not Take Place (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 62, 68; John R. MacArthur, Lapdogs for the Pentagon Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (New York: Hill & Wang, 1992); George Gerbner, “Persian Gulf War, the Movie,” in H. Mowlana et al., eds., Triumphof the Image (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 243-65; PBS, “Frontline: The War We Left Behind,” 29 October 1991; Eliot Cohen, “The Mystique of U.S. Air Power,” Foreign Affairs 73 (1994): 11—29.
5 Lauren Rabinovitz and Susan Jeffords, “Introduction,” in L. Rabinovitz and S. Jef fords, eds., Seeing Through the Media (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994), pp. 1—17; Alicia Munday, Arthur E. Rowse, and Ana Arana, “Is the Press Any Match for Powerhouse P.R.?” Columbia Journalism Review 31 (1992): 27-34; Tara Parker-Pope, “Hill and Knowlton Polishes Its Own Image,” Wall Street Journal, 19 February 1997, pp. B1, 8.
6 Arthur E. Rowse, “Lapdogs for the Pentagon,” Progressive 56 (1 July 1992): 38; PBS, “Frontline: The Gulf War,” January 1996.
7 PBS, “Frontline: The Gulf War,”January 1996; Sandra Moriarty and David Shaw, “An Antiseptic War,” News Photographer 50 (April