Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Diane Miller Sommerville
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-12 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white
Reconstructing the Household
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Peter W. Bardaglio
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focus
Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Sharon Block
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which
Aberration of Mind
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Diane Miller Sommerville
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-25 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. I
White Women, Black Men
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: Martha Hodes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Ma