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Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

Weinman, Sarah

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CriminologySocial MovementsTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $18.99

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ISBN10: 0063279894
ISBN13: 9780063279896
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65
Language: English

From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women's rights that would reverberate for decades.

In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of marital rape seemed ludicrous to many Americans and was a crime in only four states. After a quick and conservative trial acquitted John Rideout and a defense lawyer lambasted that maybe rape is the risk of being married, Greta was ridiculed and scorned from public life, while John went on to be a repeat offender. Thrust into the national spotlight, Greta and her story would become a national sensation, a symbol of a country's unrelenting and targeted hate toward women and a court system designed to fail them at every turn.

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