Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

EDITED BY MERRIL D. SMITH SEX WITHOUT CONSENT Rape and Sexual Coercion in America a New York University Press • New York and London NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London© 2001 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sex without consent : rape and sexual coercion in America / edited by Merril D. Smith. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: “None of the women were abused” : indigenous contexts for the treatment of women captives in the Northeast / Alice Nash — “Playing the rogue” : rape and issues of consent in seventeenth-century Massachusetts / Else Hambleton — Sexual consent and sexual coercion in seventeenth-century Virginia / Terri L. Snyder — Coerced sex and gendered violence in New Netherland / James Horner Williams — Rape, law, courts, and custom in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800 / Jack Marietta and G. S. Rowe — “The law should be her protector” : the criminal prosecution of rape in Upper Canada, 1791–1850 / Patrick J. Connor — “I was very much wounded” : rape law, children, and the Antebellum South / Diane Miller Sommerville — “A most detestable crim” : character, consent, and corroboration in Vermont’s rape law, 1850–1920 / Hal Goldman — “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 —Race, honor, citizenship : the Massie rape/murder case / Bonni Cermak — “Another negrodid -it crime” : black-on-white rape and protest in Virginia, 1945–1960 / Lisa Lindquist Dorr — Sexual coercion and limited choices : their link to teen pregnancy and welfare / Robert Cherry — Rape on campus : numbers tell less than half the story / Julie Campbell-Ruggaard and Jami Van Ryswyk. ISBN 0-8147-9788-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8147-9789-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Rape—United States—History. 2. Sex crimes—United States—History. 3. Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States. I. Smith, Merril D., 1956– HV6561 .S47 2001 364.15'32'0973—dc21 2001003460 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For my sisters, Lynne, Lori, Linda, Michele, and Hannah ...