Sapphic Slashers
Subtitle: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780822326090
Subjects: American studies; Lesbian Studies; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Mitchell, Alice,; True Crime / Espionage; Nonfiction - True Crime / Espionage; Sociology; USA; Murder; Murder - General; Gay & Lesbian Studies/Queer Th; History; Tennessee; Ward, Freda,; d. 1892; 19th cent; 19th century; Lesbian couples; Memphis; Murder in mass media
First sentence: Opening a U.S. newspaper on a typical day, a contemporary reader confronts the national, international, and local news, arranged on the page according to widely agreed upon hierarchies of significance, and conveyed in familiar genres of "hard" news, news analysis, features, editorials, and special interest or lifestyle reporting on subjects from sports to fashion.