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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Battan, Jesse F. (Contribuidor), Campbell-Ruggaard, Julie (Contribuidor), Cermak, Bonni (Contribuidor), Cherry, Robert (Contribuidor), Connor, Patrick J. (Contribuidor), Goldman, Hal (Contribuidor), Hambleton, Else L. (Contribuidor), Homer Williams, James (Contribuidor), Lindquist Dorr, Lisa (Contribuidor), Marietta, Jack (Contribuidor), Miller Sommerville, Diane (Contribuidor), Nash, Alice (Contribuidor), Rowe, G. S. (Contribuidor), Smith, Merril D (Contribuidor), Smith, Merril D. (Editor ), Snyder, Terri L (Contribuidor), Van Ryswyk, Jami (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2002]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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