Rape and sexual power in early America /

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Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implictions of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundres more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Block, Sharon, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
Temas:
1700-1899
Rape > United States > History.
Sex crimes > United States > History.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Control (Psychology)
Rape.
History, 18th Century
Power, Psychological
Rape
History, 19th Century
Rape > United States.
History, 18th Century > United States.
History, 19th Century > United States.
Power (Psychology) > United States.
Viol > États-Unis > Histoire.
Violence sexuelle > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Contrôle (Psychologie)
Viol.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Medicine
Sex crimes
Ethnische Beziehungen
Vergewaltigung
Strafverfolgung
United States > History > 18th century.
United States > History > 19th century.
United States
États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Nordamerika
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of illustrations
  • Archival abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Consent and coercion : the continuum of sexual relations
  • 2. The means of sexual coercion : identity, power, and social consent
  • 3. After coerced sex : the progression of knowledge
  • 4. The crime of rape : transatlantic standards, American racialization, and local judgment
  • 5. Constructing rape and race at Early American courts
  • 6. New worlds of rape: masculinity, myth, and revolution
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A : Tabulation of known sexual coercion incidents
  • Appendix B : Legal records consulted
  • Index.

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