WGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Marital Rape

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 101
• Professor: Bufalino, Jamie

Document Summary

Pattern of behaviors used by an abusive partner to gain control over an intimate partner. 50% of women who are murdered are murdered by a current or former intimate partner. 68% of sexual assaults are not reported and 2% of reported perpetrators actually get in trouble. On average, people return to ipv after leaving 7 times. Married women"s property act of 1839 in mississippi. Allowed to own property but not control it. Allowed married women to own and sell real and personal property, control their earnings and make wills. Men were no longer allowed to beat their wives. Wife beating becomes a crime, punishable by 40 lashes or a year in jail. Cruel and inhuman treatment became grounds for divorce but a sufficient number of beatings must have occurred. 1980: first man to be convicted of marital rape. 1964: haven house in pasadena first battered women"s shelter.