1. Why Study Women Who Avoided Rape? -- 2. What Constitutes Rape? How the Women Defined Their Situations -- 3. The Rape Situation -- 4. How Accosted Women Prevented Rape -- 5. Socialization and Rape Avoidance: Guise and Dolls -- 6. Ethnicity and Rape Avoidance: Jews, White Catholics and Blacks -- 7. Why Men Rape -- 8. Summary and Conclusion: What We Learned and What It Means