Editing Acquaintance rape (section)

== Origin of the term ==
Studies distinguishing between stranger rape and those by a person known to the victim go back to the 1950s, when a study examining American police rape files from 1958 and 1960 found about half were alleged to have been committed by men who knew their victims. The phrase acquaintance rape was first used in print in 1982 by feminist writer and activist [[Diana E. H. Russell|Diana Russell]].<ref name="russell1982">{{cite book|author=Diana E. H. Russell|title=Rape in marriage|orig-year=1982|year=1990|publisher=Bloomington : Indiana University Press|isbn=9780026061902|quote="For example, he refers to wife rape as involving "acts of a less egregious kind' -- less egregious presumably than stranger and acquaintance rape"|url=https://archive.org/details/rapeinmarriage0000russ}}</ref>{{Rp|395}} She used it as an umbrella term to cover all rapes involving people who know one another, in her write-up of a study of 930 women in San Francisco in which she found that 35% reported having experienced rape or attempted rape by an acquaintance, compared with 11% who reported being raped by strangers. In 1988 American feminist writer [[Robin Warshaw]] published ''[[I Never Called It Rape]]'', the first major book on acquaintance rape.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial|last = Reeves Sanday|first = Peggy|publisher = University of California Press|year = 1997|isbn = 978-0520210929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jgZk6SSYmKgC|pages = 186–194}}</ref>