Sex without Consent : : Rape and Sexual Coercion in America / / ed. by Merril D. Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Battan, Jesse F.,; Campbell-Ruggaard, Julie,; Cermak, Bonni,; Cherry, Robert,; Connor, Patrick J.,; Goldman, Hal,; Hambleton, Else L.,; Homer Williams, James,; Lindquist Dorr, Lisa,; Marietta, Jack,; Miller Sommerville, Diane,; Nash, Alice,; Rowe, G. S.,; Smith, Merril D,; Snyder, Terri L,; Van Ryswyk, Jami,
• HerausgeberIn: Smith, Merril D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814708620; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814708620.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Merril D. Smith.

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.