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