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Sex Without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America. (Book Reviews)

Archives of Sexual Behavior,  December, 2002  by Irene Hanson Frieze

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Sex Without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America. Edited by Merril D. Smith. New York University Press, New York, 2001, 308 Pp., $19.50 (paper), $60.00 (cloth).

This edited volume includes several papers by historians discussing legal codes and practices relating to coercive sexual activities in the United States in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One paper deals with Native Americans in Canada in the 1600s. Another chapter analyzes rape laws in upper Canada from 1791 to 1850. Three additional chapters discuss coercive sex in the United States in the 1800s. Two chapters relate to the early twentieth ...