Sex without consent
Subtitle: rape and sexual coercion in America
By: edited by Merril D. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Merril D., 1956-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Rape -- United States -- History; Sex crimes -- United States -- History; Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "None of the women were abused" : indigenous contexts for the treatment of women captives in the Northeast / Alice Nash; title: "Playing the rogue" : rape and issues of consent in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Else L. Hambleton; title: Sexual consent and sexual coercion in seventeenth-century Virginia / Terri L. Snyder; title: Coerced sex and gendered violence in New Netherland / James Homer Williams; title: Rape, law, courts, and custom in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 / Jack Marietta and G.S. Rowe; title: "The law should be her protector" : the criminal prosecution of rape in Upper Canada, 1791-1850 / Patrick J. Connor; title: "I was very much wounded" : rape law, children, and the Antebellum South / Diane Miller Sommerville; title: "A most detestable crime" : character, consent, and corroboration in Vermont's rape law, 1850-1920 / Hal Goldman; title: "In the marriage bed woman's sex has been enslaved and abused" : defining and exposing marital rape in late-nineteenth-century America / Jesse F. Battan; title: Race, honor, citizenship : the Massie rape/murder case / Bonni Cermak; title: "Another negro-did-it crime" : black-on-white rape and protest in Virginia, 1945-1960 / Lisa Lindquist Dorr; title: Sexual coercion and limited choices : their link to teen pregnancy and welfare / Robert Cherry; title: Rape on campus : numbers tell less than half the story / Julie Campbell-Ruggaard and Jami Van Ryswyk.