Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: her to engage in sexual intercourse.At the time of her seduction, Haygood was a 20-yearold resident of Mills County, Iowa.The couple lived about a mile from each other and had become engaged earlier that year.According to Haygood, Bell had pursued her for sexual intercourse over the course of several months before she eventually capitulated to his wishes.When Bell was tried for felonious seduction, Haygood told the court that she believed him when he promised that "he wouldn't harm me and wanted me to have confidence in him."The jury in the case ultimately convicted Bell and sentenced him to a "term" in the penitentiary. 1eduction cases such as State v. Bell illustrate how criminal seduction laws promoted a concept of gendered citizenshipthe legal logic that demanded that men and women be allocated the rights and obligations of citizenship based on their sex. 2 The Iowa Code of 1851 included a seduction statute that allowed the legal system to prosecute "if any person seduce and debauch any unmarried woman of previously chaste character." 3Iowa's
Source: The Annals of Iowa
Author: Sharon Romeo
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3091861369