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...Oregon, a husband goes on trial for rape...
Today such an act could land a husband in jail. On Oct. 10, Greta Rideout of Salem, Ore., was allegedly raped by her husband John. She called the local Salem Women's Crisis Service, which advised her to call the police. That would have been unthinkable not only in Galsworthy's England but even in Oregon until last year. Common law and most U.S. statutes were clear: with the marriage vows came the assumption of sexual consent. But encouraged by women's rights advocates, the Oregon legislature changed the state's rape...
That view may be losing ground. Delaware and Nebraska have adopted new laws allowing wives to charge live-in husbands with rape, and a similar statute in New Jersey will go into effect next September. More states permit wives who are separated from their husbands to charge rape, and women's groups elsewhere are becoming vocal on the subject. They resent what Nancy Burch, director of the Oregon women's center that Greta first contacted, calls the "archaic notion that a woman is her husband's property." The Rideout case is the first of its kind under...
...September afternoon in 1974 Elaine Summers, 23, then a University of Hartford senior, was studying in a park when a man brandishing a piece of broken glass threatened to rape her. She talked him out of it. Two months later police arrested Joseph Polumbo Jr., 20. Polumbo pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of assault, but was set free when the judge gave him a suspended sentence...
...really thought I was a bourgeouise Black, who was making it. What I was really doing was killing our people all over the world. I was helping rape innocent women, children, stealing land, bombing beautiful colored people, black, yellow, brown, red, white. I cringe at the thought, but I will live with this because I know what a bitch I really...