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Women and sexual assault in the United States, 1900–1940
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In the United States, the history of sexual assault in the first half of the 20th century involves multiple contradictions between the ordinary, almost invisible accounts of women of all colors who were raped by fathers, husbands, neighbors, boarders, bosses, hired hands, and other known individuals versus the sensational myths that involved rapacious black men, sly white slavers, libertine elites, and virginal white female victims. Much of the debate about sexual assault revolved around the ...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.495
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- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
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- Oxford Studies in American Literary History
- Publication date:
- 2019-03-26
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English
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Chapter
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pubs:959081
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- 2019
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.495
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