Rape in Chicago : race, myth, and the courts /

Spanning a period of four tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s, this study reassesses the ways in which Chicagoans negotiated the extraordinary challenges of rape, as either victims or accused perpetrators.

Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Flood, Dawn Rae
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Urbana : University of Illinois Press [2012]
Saila:Women in American history.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xchbm
Aurkibidea:
  • Rape victims and the modern justice system
  • The power of racial rape myths after World War II
  • Black victims and postwar trial strategies
  • Order in the court
  • Second-wave feminists (re)discover rape
  • Conclusion: ripped from the headlines.