Rape and sexual power in early America

The Resource Rape and sexual power in early America

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Rape and sexual power in early America

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Sharon Block

Title variation

Rape & sexual power in early America

Language

eng

Summary

Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implictions of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundres 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 classfied as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charded only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial toes to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-born system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation

Cataloging source

OCLCE

Dewey number

364.15/32097309033

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6561

LC item number

.B56 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

NLM call number

2006 L-174
HV 6561

NLM item number

B651r 2006

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