Do eighteenth and nineteenth-century understandings of sexuality and criminality persist in the American legal system during the twenty-first century?
Answer in 1-3 short paragraphs by making an argument accountable to evidence drawn from the lectures and readings for this week.
Reading
Sharon Block, IntroductionPreview the document and Chapter 1, 4, 5: “Consent and Coercion: The Continuum of Sexual RelationsPreview the document,” Rape and Sexual Power in Early America (2006).
Thomas A. Foster, “The Sexual Abuse of Black Men under American SlaveryPreview the document,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, 3 (September 2011): 445-465.
B.R. Burg, “Sodomy, Masturbation, and Courts-Martial in the Antebellum American Navy,” (Links to an external site.) Journal of the History of Sexuality 23, 1 (2014): 53-78.
