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Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial. By Louise Barnett. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000. xii, 287 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-8090-7397-8.)

In 1882 the Texas Supreme Court declared that incest was "an outrage upon nature" and "a crime against humanity itself." Given such a forceful denunciation of the crime, one might think that nineteenth-century American jurists had few reservations about convicting fathers who engaged in sexual intercourse with their daughters. But, in fact, many courts were reluctant to impose criminal punishment except when clear evidence existed that the father had used violence to gain sexual access. . . .

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