Rape and sexual power in early America /Sharon Block.
Block, Sharon, 1968-
Rape and sexual power in early America /Sharon Block. Rape & sexual power in early America - Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- Archival abbreviations -- Introduction -- Consent and coercion : the continuum of sexual relations -- The means of sexual coercion : identity, power, and social consent -- After coerced sex : the progression of knowledge -- The crime of rape : transatlantic standards, American racialization, and local judgment -- Constructing rape and race at Early American courts -- New worlds of rape: masculinity, myth, and revolution -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : Tabulation of known sexual coercion incidents -- Appendix B : Legal records consulted -- Index.
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.
9781469600970 9780807838938
2005035320
Rape--History.--United States
Sex crimes--History.--United States
Medicine--History--18th century.
Control (Psychology)
Rape.
History, 18th Century
Power, Psychological
Rape
History, 19th Century
Rape--United States.
History, 18th Century--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
Power (Psychology)--United States.
Rape--United States.
History, 18th Century--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
Power (Psychology)--United States.
Electronic Books.
HV6561 / .R374 2006
Rape and sexual power in early America /Sharon Block. Rape & sexual power in early America - Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- Archival abbreviations -- Introduction -- Consent and coercion : the continuum of sexual relations -- The means of sexual coercion : identity, power, and social consent -- After coerced sex : the progression of knowledge -- The crime of rape : transatlantic standards, American racialization, and local judgment -- Constructing rape and race at Early American courts -- New worlds of rape: masculinity, myth, and revolution -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : Tabulation of known sexual coercion incidents -- Appendix B : Legal records consulted -- Index.
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.
9781469600970 9780807838938
2005035320
Rape--History.--United States
Sex crimes--History.--United States
Medicine--History--18th century.
Control (Psychology)
Rape.
History, 18th Century
Power, Psychological
Rape
History, 19th Century
Rape--United States.
History, 18th Century--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
Power (Psychology)--United States.
Rape--United States.
History, 18th Century--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
Power (Psychology)--United States.
Electronic Books.
HV6561 / .R374 2006