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.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2012]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.