In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, 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. She demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. Early Americans' treatment of rape, she argues, both enacted ...
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In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, 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. She demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. Early Americans' treatment of rape, she argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.
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Very good. Ex-library. ix, 276 p. : ill.; 25 cm. LCCN 2005035320 Type of material Book Personal name Block, Sharon, 1968-Main title Rape and sexual power in early America / Sharon Block. Published/Created Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2006. Description ix, 276 p. : ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 0807830453 (cloth: alk. paper) 0807857610 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780807830451 (cloth: alk. paper) 9780807857618 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HV6561. B56 2006 Cover title Rape & sexual power in early America Related names Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. LC Subjects Rape--United States--History. Sex crimes--United States--History. United States--History--18th century. United States--History--19th century. Notes "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 364.15/32097309033 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm62509196
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Good. Size: 9x6x0; Bound in publisher's black cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered markings to a couple pages. In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, this work exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. It demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved, including African American slaves and their masters.
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