Lisa Duggan

Sapphic Slashers

Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamoured to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326175
• ISBN-10: 0822326175
• Artikelnr.: 21875148

Autorenporträt

Lisa Duggan is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at New York University. She is coauthor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture and coeditor of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I Murder in Memphis
1. Girl Slays Girl 9
2. A Feast of Sensation 32
3. Habeas Corpus 61
4. Inquisition of Lunacy 87
Part II Making Meanings
5. Violent Passions 123
6. Doctors of Desire 156
7. A Thousand Stories 180
More Than Love: An Epilogue 193
Appendix A: Hypothetical Case 201
Appendix B: Letters 213
Notes 233
Bibliography 281
Index 299