Sex without Consent : Rape and Sexual Coercion in America /
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 the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2002]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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