Sex without Consent : Rape and Sexual Coercion in America / ed. by Merril D. Smith.
Battan, Jesse F., contributor.; Campbell-Ruggaard, Julie, contributor.; Cermak, Bonni, contributor.; Cherry, Robert, contributor.; Connor, Patrick J., contributor.; Goldman, Hal, contributor.; Hambleton, Else L., contributor.; Homer Williams, James, contributor.; Lindquist Dorr, Lisa, contributor.; Marietta, Jack, contributor.; Miller Sommerville, Diane, contributor.; Nash, Alice, contributor.; Rowe, G. S., contributor.; Smith, Merril D, contributor.; Smith, Merril D., editor.; Snyder, Terri L, contributor.; Van Ryswyk, Jami, contributor.
2002
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Title Sex without Consent : Rape and Sexual Coercion in America / ed. by Merril D. Smith.
ISBN 9780814708620
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814708620.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2002]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814708620.001.0001 doi
Call Number HV6561 .S47 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.15/32/0973
Summary 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.
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Added Author Battan, Jesse F., contributor.
Campbell-Ruggaard, Julie, contributor.
Cermak, Bonni, contributor.
Cherry, Robert, contributor.
Connor, Patrick J., contributor.
Goldman, Hal, contributor.
Hambleton, Else L., contributor.
Homer Williams, James, contributor.
Lindquist Dorr, Lisa, contributor.
Marietta, Jack, contributor.
Miller Sommerville, Diane, contributor.
Nash, Alice, contributor.
Rowe, G. S., contributor.
Smith, Merril D, contributor.
Smith, Merril D., editor.
Snyder, Terri L, contributor.
Van Ryswyk, Jami, contributor.
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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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