Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: What Part of "No" Don't You Understand? xiii
5. Part I. Feudal to Classic Liberal Precedents
6. 1. "Chastity Is Only Good for the Work It Can Do": Seduction, Consent and the Private Self 3
7. 2. "Victim or Victimizer?" The Dilemma of Seduction in Classic Liberal Culture 25
8. Part II. Classic Liberal to Modern Liberal Precedents
9. 3. White Slavery or the Wages of Sin? The Reinvention of the Privacy and Sexual Violence in the Modern Liberal Context 63
10. 4. "Alleged Husbands" and Bona Fide Cases: Arranged Marriage, Pure and Simple Consent, and the Modern Social Contract 94
11. Part III. Modern Liberal Precedents
12. 5. The First Sexual Revolution: Two Views 121
13. 6. "Race Lust in Paradise" and "Sex Trouble:" Meanings of Sexual Liberty and Violence in the Early 1930s 143
14. Epilogue 177
15. Notes 185
16. Index 227