Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America

Contributors

Contributors JESSE F. BATTAN is an associate professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of “The ‘Rights’ of Husbands and the ‘Duties’ of Wives: Power and Desire in the American Bedroom, 1850–1910,” Journal of Family History , 24 (April 1999): 165–186. He is currently completing work on a manuscript entitled “The Politics of Eros: Sexual Radicalism and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century America.” JULIE CAMPBELL-RUGGAARD is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who worked at Miami University’s Student Counseling Center for ten years prior to moving into full-time private practice and consulting . She specializes in sexual abuse/assault recovery and eating disorders, and has spoken at a number of professional conferences on these issues. In addition, she is co-coordinator of a nonprofit group called Victims Rights Advocacy. BONNI CERMAK is a doctoral student at the University of Oregon. Her dissertation is entitled “Retelling Rape: Legal and Cultural Narratives of Rape, 1920–1960.” She has presented a number of papers at professional conferences, including the Western Association of Women’s Historians and the American Historical Association. ROBERT CHERRY is professor of economics at Brooklyn College. He is the author of over a dozen books and articles, most recently Who Gets the Good jobs? Combating Race and Gender Disparities (Rutgers University Press, 2001) and Prosperity for All? The Economic Boom and African Americans (coedited with William Rodgers), published by Russell Sage, 2000. PATRICK J. CONNOR is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at York University in Toronto. He is currently completing a disser301 tation on the use of the royal pardon in the Upper Canadian justice system , 1791–1841. He is also editor of the journal Left History. LISA LINDQUIST DORR is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama. She has published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, the Journal of Women’s History, and the Journal of Southern History. She is currently revising her manuscript tentatively entitled, “‘Messin’ White Women’: White Women, Black Men, and Rape in Virginia , 1900–1960.” HAL GOLDMAN is assistant professor of Legal Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He received his law degree from Boston College and his doctorate in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He specializes in the history of law, gender, and sexuality. ELSE L. HAMBLETON is revising her dissertation entitled, “The World Filled with a Generation of Bastards: Unwed Mothers and Pregnant Brides in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts” (University of Massachusetts , 2000). She is the author of “The Regulation of Sex in Seventeenth -Century Massachusetts: The Quarterly Court of Essex County vs. Priscilla Willson and Mr. Samuel Appleton,” ed. Merril D. Smith, Sex and Sexuality in Early America (New York University Press, 1998). JACK MARIETTA is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona. He has published widely on the Quaker experience in Pennsylvania and on computing the population in that area. He is the author of The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748–1783, and is coauthoring, with G. S. Rowe, a work on crime and criminal administration in Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801. ALICE NASH is assistant professor of Native American and Early American History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her dissertation , “The Abiding Frontier: Family, Gender, and Religion in Wabanaki History, 1600–1763” (Columbia Unviversity, 1997) is being revised for publication by the University of Massachusetts Press. G. S. ROWE is professor of history at the University of Colorado. He has published more than three dozen articles on various aspects of the law, 302 CONTRIBUTORS crime, lawyers, and judges in the early republic, as well as two books: Thomas McKean: The Shaping of an American Republicanism (1978) and Embattled Bench: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the Forging of a Democratic Society, 1684–1809 (1994). Currently he is collaborating with Jack Marietta on a study of crime and criminal administration in Pennsylvania , called Law, License, and Liberty: Crime and Its Resolution in Pennsylvania , 1682–1801. MERRIL D. SMITH is an independent scholar. She is the author of Breaking the Bonds: Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730–1830, and editor of Sex and Sexuality in Early America, both published by New York University Press. TERRI L. SNYDER is an associate professor in Liberal Studies and American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She has authored articles on gender, violence, and...