Rape and Sexual Power in Early America (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

by SharonBlock (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $52.73

  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.