Southern horrors
Subtitle: women and the politics of rape and lynching
By: Crystal N. Feimster.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780674035621
Subjects: Women -- Violence against -- Southern States -- History; Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- History; Rape -- Southern States -- History; African Americans -- Southern States -- History; Southern States -- Social conditions -- History
Table of contents: title: The horrors of war; title: The violent transition from freedom to segregation; title: Southern white women and the anti-rape movement; title: Organizing in defense of black womanhood; title: New southern women and the triumph of white supremacy; title: The lynching of black and white women; title: Equal rights for southern women; title: The gender and racial politics of the anti-lynching movement.