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Rape and sexual power in early America / Sharon Block.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.Description: ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0807830453 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807830451 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807857610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780807857618 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Rape & sexual power in early America [Cover title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV6561 .B56 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.