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Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation / Estelle B. Freedman.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013Description: 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674724846
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.15/320973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6561 .F74 2013
Contents:
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.

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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