""Provides an overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century."
Sex without Consent Rape and Sexual Coercion in America by MerrilD. Smith, Nyu Press Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2002 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-9789-1, ISBN: 0-8147-9789-X
"A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to "make a woman of her." An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home. In another case, a college frat party is the scene of the crime. Although these incidents appear similar to accounts one can read in the newspapers almost any day in the United States, only the last one occurred in this century ..."
Sexual Harassment a Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by Smith, MerrilD. Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-6769-9, ISBN: 1-4408-6769-0
"This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of rape and other forms of sexual violence, containing the latest information about victims and perpetrators; events, laws, and trends related to sexual violence; and attitudes toward it.This encyclopedia will help readers to develop a deeper understanding of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the United States and around the world. Content illuminates all aspects of this se ..."
Encyclopedia of Rape(1st Edition) by MerrilD. Smith Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by Greenwood ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32687-5, ISBN: 0-313-32687-8
Breaking the Bonds(Updated) Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830 (The American Social Experience) by MerrilD. Smith Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 1993 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7980-4, ISBN: 0-8147-7980-8
"The late eighteenth century marked a period of changing expectations about marriage: companionship came to coexist as a norm alongside older patriarchal standards, men and women began to see their roles in more disparate ways, expectations about the satisfaction of marriage grew, and gender distinctions between husbands and wives became more complicated. Marital strife was an inevitable outcome of these changing expectations. The diffic ..."
"However, Michael Davitt Bell argues that disguise in the novel represents the “
dialectic between innocence and experience[,] between sincerity' and duplicity,”
or, more generally, “between energy and order.” See “The Double-Tongued
Deceiver'. Sincerity and Duplicity in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown,”
Early American Literature 9.2 (1974): 143, 151. Both Alan Axelrod and Michael
Davitt Bell suggest that the masquerade symboliz ..."
Sex Without Consent Rape and Sexual Coercion in America by MerrilD. Smith Hardcover, 351 Pages, Published 2002 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-0862-0, ISBN: 0-8147-0862-5
"A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to make a woman of her. An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home."
Breaking the Bonds Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830 (The American Social Experience) by MerrilD. Smith Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 1992 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7934-7, ISBN: 0-8147-7934-4
The World of the American Revolution A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]: A Daily Life Encyclopedia by MerrilD. Smith 970 Pages, Published 2015 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-3028-0, ISBN: 1-4408-3028-2
"John Bartram established his botanical garden in 1728. His son William Bartram (
1739–1823) was also a botanist and a botanical illustrator. The house and 45-
acre site are now a museum and historic botanical garden. (Universal History
Archive/Getty Images) colonies for agricultural research, but it was a short-lived
failure. As the American scientific community developed in the 18th century, there
was a greater interest in the more ..."
"These images serve to support the idea that women are to maintain sexual
availability for others' desires. There are few studies that look specifically at
breasts in the media; however, there are numerous studies that look at the
sexualization ofwomen in the media and point to the cultural preoccupation with
breasts as sexually arousing. Most women presented via media images
represent the heterosexual male's “fantasy woman” with a ..."
"Women's work is the subject of Chapter 4. The focus is work within the home, preparing food, sewing, taking care of children, and making household goods, or as businesswomen or midwives. Women and religion are discussed in Chapter 5."
Power in Struggle Feminism, Sexuality and the State by Davina Cooper, MerrilSmith Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1995 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-1527-7, ISBN: 0-8147-1527-3
"Those seeking social change confront the centrality of power on a daily basis. What precisely is power and how does it manifest itself? And how are radical and progressive strategies shaped by the ways in which we conceptualize it? Drawing on feminist, poststructuralist, and Marxist theory, Davina Cooper develops an innovative framework for understanding power relations in forms as diverse as reproductive technology, queer activism, mu ..."