Rape in Seventeenth-century Massachusetts
Author | : Catherine S. Baker. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Catherine S. Baker. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Else L. Hambleton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135934312 |
This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between 1640 and 1692. Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who bore illegitimate children were punished more severely than their male partners, and regarded with contempt by the majority of women.
Author | : Lyle Koehler |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Else L. Hambleton |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780415948609 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Emily C. K. Romeo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781625345134 |
Dismantling the image of the peaceful and serene colonial goodwife and countering the assumption that New England was inherently less violent than other regions of colonial America, Emily C. K. Romeo offers a revealing look at acts of violence by Anglo-American women in colonial Massachusetts, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Using Essex County as a case study, Romeo deftly utilizes seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to demonstrate that Puritan women, both "virtuous" and otherwise, learned to negotiate the shifting boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable violence in their daily lives and communities. The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts shows that more dramatic violence by women -- including infanticide, the scalping of captors during the Indian Wars, and even witchcraft accusations -- was not necessarily intended to challenge the structures of authority but often sprung from women's desire to protect property, safety, and standing for themselves and their families. The situations in which women chose to flout powerful social conventions and resort to overt violence expose the underlying, often unspoken, priorities and gendered expectations that shaped this society.
Author | : Mary Michelle Jarrett Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Families |
ISBN | : |
This thesis explores how families in late seventeenth-century Massachusetts reacted when their kin became involved in sexual misbehavior. When confronted with children accused of sexual indiscretions, kin experiencing marital problems, or those accused of more serious crimes such as rape or infanticide, families closed ranks around their erring (or victimized) kinfolk with a fiercely single-minded devotion. Families negotiated hasty marriages for pregnant young women or appeared in court to testify on behalf of young men accused of fathering bastards. They posted bond and petitioned for clemency on behalf of their misbehaving kin. But there was a darker side to family loyalty as well. If most men and women giving their depositions told the truth as they saw it, albeit as interested parties, some alibied those they must have known or suspected were guilty. Others resorted to more extreme behaviors such as deliberate slander, jury tampering or intimidation to achieve their ends. Early American historians have long treated as gospel the idea that seventeenth-century New Englanders acted as their brothers' (and sisters') keepers. I have investigated the genealogical background of defendant after defendant and have discovered that in most cases the people who appeared in court to testify were usually family members of those involved or other interested parties rather than random neighbors protecting the moral integrity of the community. Family members, not the community at large, provided the backbone of the sexual policing system. Courts could be allies or adversaries in the battle to vindicate kinfolk; other families were usually the enemy. When one family used the courts to have a man named the father of a pregnant daughter's bastard child, her partner's family marshaled their resources to counter that charge and convince the courts, often impugning witnesses and indulging in character assassination along the way. Even ostensibly criminal cases, which theoretically involved only the accused and the crown, often played out as contests between the family of the victim and that of the accused. The resemblance between families and commonwealths was never more striking than when families dealt with the sexual misbehavior of their own members. The police force was made up of the extended family. Court trials resembled nothing so much as international relations in which competing families negotiated with allies and sought to best the families of those sexually involved with their own sons or daughters and, sometimes, servants or slaves---usually by fair means but sometimes by foul.
Author | : M. Michelle Jarrett Morris |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2012-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674067894 |
The Puritans were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many early American historians would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals that family members took on the role of watchdogs in matters of sexual indiscretion.
Author | : Irene Quenzler Brown |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2005-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674249240 |
In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox, Massachusetts, for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy. Not all witnesses believed justice had triumphed. The death penalty had become controversial; no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century. Wheeler maintained his innocence. Over one hundred local citizens petitioned for his pardon--including, most remarkably, Betsy and her mother. Impoverished, illiterate, a failed farmer who married into a mixed-race family and clashed routinely with his wife, Wheeler existed on the margins of society. Using the trial report to reconstruct the tragic crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America. They imaginatively and sensitively explore issues of family violence, poverty, gender, race and class, religion, and capital punishment, revealing similarities between death penalty politics in America today and two hundred years ago. Beautifully crafted, engagingly written, this unforgettable story probes deeply held beliefs about morality and about the nature of justice.
Author | : Tuba Inal |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors. Historically, women, men, and children have all suffered sexual violence, during wartime and peacetime as well as inside and outside their homes. This two-volume title focuses on survivors of rape in a variety of social and cultural contexts. It examines different people who are victimized in a variety of situations (including in war and prisons) and studies the particularities of "rape cultures" that are intertwined with ethnic cultures and hatreds and other forms of conflictual social, political, and economic relations. In the introduction, the editors define rape and rape culture and provide historical and cultural context for the information presented throughout the volumes, the first of which primarily focuses on the causes and manifestations of rape cultures; the second considers the consequences of rape cultures for survivors of sexual assault. In both volumes, contributors provide case studies elucidating the experiences of a variety of victims—young, old, male, female, straight, and LGBT—in diverse locations around the world to help readers understand how truly pervasive and portentous rape culture is.
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Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 318 |
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ISBN | : 144295809X |