Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

Name: Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
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ISBN: 9780807857618

ISBN-10: 0807857610

ISBN-13: 9780807857618

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sharon Block

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In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved.…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Sharon Block is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.