Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...John chased her through a field near their apartment building, dragged her inside and raped her as their 2½-year-old daughter watched and cried, "Mommy, Mommy!" Defense Lawyer Charles Burt admitted that sexual intercourse took place, but he denied that John had used force. Greta kneed her husband in the groin, Burt told the jurors, and John then slapped her in the face. The defense portrayed the young couple's rocky four-year relationship as "quarrel, make up, have...
...undermine her credibility, Burt also painted Greta, 23, as a sexually troubled woman. Her peccadilloes, admitted before trial, included extramarital affairs, two abortions (one for a child not her husband's), and a lesbian relationship (the last she later denied). She enjoys the publicity that has accompanied the prosecution of her husband, said Burt; according to witnesses, she announced that she is going to "be rich and famous" after signing a movie contract to tell her story. Before the trial Burt protested: "There are enough problems with the marital relationship without allowing one spouse to charge the other with...
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...
...only three years ago, Yvonne Mitchell published Colette: A Taste for Life, a generously illustrated biography that reproduced many of the photographs included here, and with a far more comprehensive text. But Co lette was inexhaustibly photogenic. "There were no more beautiful eyes in the world," declared her last husband, Maurice Goudeket, "nor any which knew better...