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. 2 Dinah, according to the account in Genesis 34, ‘went out to visit the women of the land’ and was raped by Sechem. Sexual violence, or the threat of violence, was thus justified as ‘punishment’ for nuns’ (and other women’s) disobedience in going abroad of their own volition. Cf. also ‘Husband and wife’ [16
marriages were not necessarily devoid of affection, even love, that fear of violence and of sexual violence was a commonplace, or that most women chose to find strategies to survive within the contemporary social order rather than to challenge it. 1 E.g. J. M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in