Journalist, editor, writer, and crime fiction authority Sarah Weinman, who currently writes the monthly crime and mystery column for the New York Times Book Review, discusses her third non-fiction book, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime.
Show Notes
The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, An Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece.
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free. Ecco: 2023. https://bookshop.org/p/books/scoundrel-the-true-story-of-the-murderer-who-charmed-his-way-to-fame-and-freedom-sarah-weinman/23be54a2111a87a7?ean=9780062899774&next=t&next=t&affiliate=287
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime. Ecco: 2026.
Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Benedict, Helen. 1993.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/virgin-or-vamp-9780195086652?cc=us&lang=en&#:~:text=In%20Virgin%20or%20Vamp%20Benedict,victims%20are%20labelled%20either%20as
The book on Cheryl Arujo, the victim of the New Bedford gang rape, by Karen Curtis, The Accuser: the True Story of the Big Dan’s Gang Rape Victim, by Newman Springs in 2019, is out of print.
Monroe, Rachel. 2019. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. New York, Scribner. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Savage-Appetites/Rachel-Monroe/For-True-Crime-Fans/9781501188893
Finkelhour, David and Kersti Yllö, 1985. License to Rape: Sexual Abuse of Wives. Los Angelos: The Free Press. https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/337/
See my interview with Jennifer Freyd on institutional betrayal and the show notes for her episode. Smith, C.P. & Freyd, J.J. (2014).
Institutional betrayal. American Psychologist, 69: 575-587.
Russell, Diana. 1982. Rape in Marriage. Bloomington, University of Indiana Press. https://iupress.org/9780253205636/rape-in-marriage/
Kenney, Sally J. 2023. Review of They Don’t Want Her There: Sexual and Racial Harassment in the American University, by Carolyn Chalmers. Law & Politics Book Review. 33(5): 55-68. http://www.lpbr.net/2023/07/they-dont-want-her-there-fighting.html
X, Laura. 1999. “Accomplishing the Impossible: An Advocate’s Notes from the Successful Campaign to Make Marital and Date Rape a Crime in All 50 U.S. States and Other Countries.” Violence Against Women. 5(9): 1064-1081. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077801299005009006
AEquitas is a nonprofit organization that tracks marital rape cases. https://aequitasresource.org/search?q=marital+rape
Patricia Cornwell, https://www.patriciacornwell.com/
Kathy Reichs, https://kathyreichs.com/