Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America

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Index 305 Abortion, 269 Adultery, 5, 31, 64, 66, 67, 68, 71, 192 Anderson, Elijah, 269–270 African American: employment, 270–271; incarceration rates of men, 274–275; planned pregnancies of, 271–272; prohibitions of sex with, in New Netherland, 68; sexual coercion of women, 269–270; unwanted pregnancies, 269–270 Arnold, Marybeth Hamilton, 111, 117, 155 Assault, 181, 193 Barry, Francis, 209, 210, 217 Beecher, Catherine, 204 Benefit-cost calculations, 266; and personal safety of women, 266–267 Bestiality, 32 Block, Sharon, 46, 48 Bradford, William, 85, 91, 96 Brown, Kathleen, 50, 56 Brownmiller, Susan, 1, 7 Campus rape, 283–296; and counseling, 295–296; lack of campus help in reporting , 291; penalties for underreporting, 285; reporting of, 283–284, 285, 286, 289 Campus Security Act (1990), 286, 289 Captives: adoption of, 20–22, 23; distinctions between, 18–19, 23; explorers’ accounts of 16–17; during King Philip’s War, 19–20; Mi’kmaq accounts of, 13–16; ransom of, 23; ”white Indians,” 22 Child rape, 5, 32–33, 35, 36, 37, 42, 61; in antebellum South, 136–177; of black children in antebellum South, 162–163; charges brought by African American girls, 160; in New Netherland (girls and boys), 70–71, 73–76; in New York, 155; in Pennsylvania, 88, 90, 95; rape laws in antebellum South, 136–137; underreported , 154–155; in Upper Canada, 109, 111, 113–114, 122, 124 Children: can not commit rape, 141; crediblity of, 151, 153–154, 166–167; percent raped in antebellum Virginia, 154; as prey of sex offenders, 149, 152, 155, 165 Christianson, Scott, 71–72, 76 Clark, Anna, 111, 112, 117, 120, 127, 152 Comstock Act, 208, 219 Consent, 4, 5, 47–49, 137–138, 292; age of, 137–138; implied in marriage, 205, 206; in interracial cases, 250; lack of, as cause of ill health, 218; legal arguments about, 190–194, 196; loopholes based on race, 140–141; men and women’s views differ , 121 Contraception, 205; lack of and relationship to abuse, 268–270; sabotage of, 274 Copeland, Senator Royal S., 242 Countrey Justice, The (Dalton), 28 Crossdressing, 64 “Cult of sensibility,” 93–94 Dalton, Michael, 28, 39 Darrow, Clarence, 231, 240–242, 243 Davidson, Cathy, 93–94 Deutsch, Helene, 255–256 Divorce, and sexual abuse, 217, 228n. 56 Doctors: accounts of marital abuse, 214–215; sympathetic to Free Lovers, 213–214; testify in rape cases, 117 Domestic violence, 275; and employment, 277; of teen mothers, 273–274. See also Marital rape; Sexual coercion Dutch West India Company (WIC), 63, 68, 71, 74, 75; and law in New Netherland , 63 Ejaculation, proof of, 148, 151, 152 Fornication, 29–30, 66; in colonial Virginia, 47–49, 56; in Essex County, Massachusetts , 40–41, 42 Fortescue, Grace, 231, 232, 238, 242 Free Lovers, 5, 206, 208–221; and abolition of marriage, 209–211, 218; expose examples of marital rape, 212–213; newspapers, 213, 214, 216, 218, 219; novels, 213, 220; provide forum to discuss marital abuse, 211–212. See also Lucifer, Light-Bearer Freud, Sigmund, 254 Greenleaf, Simon, 183, 186 Grimke, Sarah, 207, 212 Grotius, Hugo, 63, 70; and classification of crime, 63–64, 71, 72 Gunn, Marcus, 118–119 Hale, Sir Matthew, 194, 206 Hammerton, A. James, 221 Harmon, Charlotta, 219–220 Harmon, Moses, 210, 213, 214, 215, 216, 219, 220 Hawaii: and citizenship, 233–235, 237–239; under commission rule, 243 Hill, Oliver, 252, 259 Hutton, William, 120 Interracial rape, 241; and African American protest, 257–258; antebellum, 248; black men tried in Virginia, 249–250, 251; black press and defense of black women, 258, 260; and civil rights, 248, 251–254, 258–259, 260, 261; and rape fantasies, 255, 260; and white women’s character, 254–257; Reconstruction, 248–249, 251 Introduction to Dutch Jurisprudence (1631), 63 Jones, Albert, 238, 242 Judd, Governor Lawrence, 231, 242 Judges: Milo Bennet, 183, 186; Albert Christy, 240; Pierpont Isham, 182–183; Loyal C. Kellogg, 190; Joseph Henry Lumpkin, 138; Macauly, 123; Loveland Muson, 194–195; John Pierpont, 190; William Dummer Powell, 109, 123; John Beverly Robinson, 117; Jonathan Ross, 191, 192–193; Homer E. Royce, 192; Henry Start, 186, 187; Benjamin Steele, 185; Russel Taft, 186; Hoyt Wheeler, 186, 193 Keele, W. C., 106–107, 116, 122 King, Wilma, 136 King Philip’s War, 19–20 La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois, 91 Lescarbot, Marc, 16, 19 Lewis, Jan, 93, 137 Lord, Ed, 238, 242 Lucifer, Light-Bearer, 214, 218, 219, 220 Lynching, 146–147, 164; reforms against, 232 Lyons, Claire, 94...