Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

Crystal N. Feimster

314 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging slow-paced

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Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world of white supremacist politics and patriarchy, a world violently divid...

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