Marital Rape: Consent, Marriage, and Social Change in Global ContextRape in marriage is a global problem affecting millions of women it is still legal in many countries and was only criminalized in all U. S. states in 1993. In much of the world, marital rape is too often understood as an oxymoron due to the fact that the ideology of permanent consent underlies the legal and cultural definitions of sex in marriage. From Vietnam to Guatemala to South Africa and beyond, this volume examines how cultural, legal, public