Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Excellent if often enraging ... The book gathers energy as Weinman walks readers through the aftermath of the Rideout case ... Never sensational nor voyeuristic, she tells these people’s stories with clarity and compassion.
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Jaw-dropping facts ... Arresting ... I found myself wanting more from the book. Without Consent gives us the history, the trials and news coverage, the activists and lawmakers, but we are in a moment in which women’s bodies are, once again — and still — up for grabs ... But Weinman is the rare true-crime writer who rises above the genre’s inherent voyeurism to interrogate our moral, cultural and legal failings. She focuses on the stories of the women behind key cases and crimes, allowing them the depth of hindsight, and the rich humanity that trials by their very nature flatten.
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Ms. Weinman is a true-crime author whose previous books include Scoundrel (2022), the story of a convicted murderer who conned William F. Buckley Jr. into helping him secure his freedom, and The Real Lolita (2018), an account of the kidnapping that inspired Vladimir Nabokov’s classic 1955 novel ... A diligent researcher and an engaging writer, she makes effective use of court testimony, newspaper accounts and, where possible, her own interviews. This creates a compelling and at times harrowing narrative, even as it leaves some broader legal and political questions unanswered.
