Sex without Consent : Rape and Sexual Coercion in America /
Sex without Consent : Rape and Sexual Coercion in America /
ed. by Merril D. Smith.
- 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Studying Rape in American History -- 1 “None of the Women Were Abused”: Indigenous Contexts for the Treatment of Women Captives in the Northeast -- 2 “Playing the Rogue”: Rape and Issues of Consent in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts -- 3 Sexual Consent and Sexual Coercion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia -- 4 Coerced Sex and Gendered Violence in New Netherland -- 5 Rape, Law, Courts, and Custom in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800 -- 6 “The Law Should Be Her Protector”: The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in Upper Canada, 1791–1850 -- 7 “I Was Very Much Wounded”: Rape Law, Children, and the Antebellum South -- 8 “A Most Detestable Crime”: Character, Consent, and Corroboration in Vermont’s Rape Law, 1850–1920 -- 9 “In the Marriage Bed Woman’s Sex Has Been Enslaved and Abused”: Defining and Exposing Marital Rape in Late-Nineteenth-Century America -- 10 Race, Honor, Citizenship: The Massie Rape/Murder Case -- 11 “Another Negro-Did-It Crime”: Black-on-White Rape and Protest in Virginia, 1945–1960 -- 12 Sexual Coercion and Limited Choices: Their Link to Teen Pregnancy and Welfare -- 13 Rape on Campus: Numbers Tell Less Than Half the Story -- Contributors -- Index
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A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to "make a woman of her." An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home. In another case, a college frat party is the scene of the crime. Although these incidents appear similar to accounts one can read in the newspapers almost any day in the United States, only the last one occurred in this century. Each, however, involved a woman or girl compelled to have sex against her will. Sex without Consent explores the experience, prosecution, and meaning of rape in American history from the time of the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans to the present. By exploring what rape meant in particular times and places in American history, from interracial encounters due to colonization and slavery to rape on contemporary college campuses, the contributors add to our understanding of crime and punishment, as well as to gender relations, gender roles, and sexual politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814797884 9780814708620
10.18574/nyu/9780814708620.001.0001 doi
Crime.
Criminal law.
Criminology.
Prejudices.
Rape--History.--United States
Rape.
Sex crimes--History.--United States
Sex crimes.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
Social control.
Social psychology.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
HISTORY / United States / General.
American. Americans. Europeans. Explores. Native. between. contact. early. experience. from. history. meaning. present. prosecution. rape. time.
HV6561 .S47 2001
364.15/32/0973
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Studying Rape in American History -- 1 “None of the Women Were Abused”: Indigenous Contexts for the Treatment of Women Captives in the Northeast -- 2 “Playing the Rogue”: Rape and Issues of Consent in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts -- 3 Sexual Consent and Sexual Coercion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia -- 4 Coerced Sex and Gendered Violence in New Netherland -- 5 Rape, Law, Courts, and Custom in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800 -- 6 “The Law Should Be Her Protector”: The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in Upper Canada, 1791–1850 -- 7 “I Was Very Much Wounded”: Rape Law, Children, and the Antebellum South -- 8 “A Most Detestable Crime”: Character, Consent, and Corroboration in Vermont’s Rape Law, 1850–1920 -- 9 “In the Marriage Bed Woman’s Sex Has Been Enslaved and Abused”: Defining and Exposing Marital Rape in Late-Nineteenth-Century America -- 10 Race, Honor, Citizenship: The Massie Rape/Murder Case -- 11 “Another Negro-Did-It Crime”: Black-on-White Rape and Protest in Virginia, 1945–1960 -- 12 Sexual Coercion and Limited Choices: Their Link to Teen Pregnancy and Welfare -- 13 Rape on Campus: Numbers Tell Less Than Half the Story -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to "make a woman of her." An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home. In another case, a college frat party is the scene of the crime. Although these incidents appear similar to accounts one can read in the newspapers almost any day in the United States, only the last one occurred in this century. Each, however, involved a woman or girl compelled to have sex against her will. Sex without Consent explores the experience, prosecution, and meaning of rape in American history from the time of the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans to the present. By exploring what rape meant in particular times and places in American history, from interracial encounters due to colonization and slavery to rape on contemporary college campuses, the contributors add to our understanding of crime and punishment, as well as to gender relations, gender roles, and sexual politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814797884 9780814708620
10.18574/nyu/9780814708620.001.0001 doi
Crime.
Criminal law.
Criminology.
Prejudices.
Rape--History.--United States
Rape.
Sex crimes--History.--United States
Sex crimes.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
Social control.
Social psychology.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
HISTORY / United States / General.
American. Americans. Europeans. Explores. Native. between. contact. early. experience. from. history. meaning. present. prosecution. rape. time.
HV6561 .S47 2001
364.15/32/0973