Sex without consent : rape and sexual coercion in America / edited by Merril D. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Merril D., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape--United States--History.

Rape.

Sex crimes--United States--History.

Sex crimes.

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 308 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2001]

Contents:

"None of the women were abused" : indigenous contexts for the treatment of women captives in the Northeast / Alice Nash

"Playing the rogue" : rape and issues of consent in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Else L. Hambleton

Sexual consent and sexual coercion in seventeenth-century Virginia / Terri L. Snyder

Coerced sex and gendered violence in New Netherland / James Homer Williams

Rape, law, courts, and custom in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 / Jack Marietta and G.S. Rowe

"The law should be her protector" : the criminal prosecution of rape in Upper Canada, 1791-1850 / Patrick J. Connor

"I was very much wounded" : rape law, children, and the Antebellum South / Diane Miller Sommerville

"A most detestable crime" : character, consent, and corroboration in Vermont's rape law, 1850-1920 / Hal Goldman

"In the marriage bed woman's sex has been enslaved and abused" : defining and exposing marital rape in late-nineteenth-century America / Jesse F. Battan

Race, honor, citizenship : the Massie rape/murder case / Bonni Cermak

"Another negro-did-it crime" : black-on-white rape and protest in Virginia, 1945-1960 / Lisa Lindquist Dorr

Sexual coercion and limited choices : their link to teen pregnancy and welfare / Robert Cherry

Rape on campus : numbers tell less than half the story / Julie Campbell-Ruggaard and Jami Van Ryswyk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814797881

081479789X

OCLC:

47120356