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Lädt ... Rape and Sexual Power in Early Americavon Sharon Block
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In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. 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. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified 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 charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There is one aspect that was thought provoking. Block looks at how the idea of rape was used to construct racial prejudices. Black men were seen as wanton rapists and accusations against them were very likely to end in conviction (or lynching, although she does not cover extra-judicial). She argues that during the 18th century, racial stereotypes in America were just being formed and that sexual assault was a major part of that formation. Her evidence is not overwhelming, but she makes an argument worth considering.
This book is a fairly easy read although not particularly well-written. Block repeats herself a lot, but her prose and her stories make her work easy to get through. I would only suggest the book if you are interested directly in gender issues in early American or in race issues. For most, even for historians of America, it is easy to miss ( )