Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation / Estelle B. Freedman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (414 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780674728493 (e-book)
- 364.15/320973 23
- HV6561 .F74 2013eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The narrowing meaning of rape -- The crime of seduction -- Empowering white women -- Contesting the rape of Black women -- The racialization of rape and lynching -- African Americans redefine sexual violence -- Raising the age of consent -- From protection to sexualization -- The sexual vulnerability of boys -- "Smashing the masher" -- After suffrage -- The anti-lynching movement -- Scottsboro and its legacies -- The enduring politics of rape.
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