TY - JOUR PY - 1999// TI - 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 JO - Violence against women A1 - X, Laura SP - 1064 EP - 1081 VL - 5 IS - 9 N2 - The history of marital rape legislation from the 1960s to the present is a long battle on many political, cultural, legal, and social levels. The author, a peace, civil, and human rights activist, has been central to the struggle, working one-on-one with a tremendous diversity of people in 45 states and several countries as the director of the National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape in Berkeley, California. Early on, major court cases brought the issue of marital rape to the attention of legislators, media, and the public nationally due to the shock of a woman saying "no" to her husband at all. Each high court or legislative victory came only after much resistance and even sabotage.
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LA - en SN - 1077-8012 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801299005009006 ID - ref1 ER -