Sapphic Slashers Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Name: Sapphic Slashers Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
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ISBN: 9780822326175

ISBN-10: 0822326175

ISBN-13: 9780822326175

Edition: 2000

Authors: Lisa Duggan

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On a winter day 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. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalised event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows how newly "modern" notions of normality and morality that arose from such cases still haunt and distort lesbian and gay politics to the present day. Situating this story alongside simultaneously circulating, lynching…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Lisa Dugganis associate professor of American Studies and History at New York University. She is co-author ofSex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Cultureand author ofSapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Murder in Memphis



Girl Slays Girl



A Feast of Sensation



Habeas Corpus



Inquisition of Lunacy



Making Meanings



Violent Passions



Doctors of Desire



A Thousand Stories


More Than Love: An Epilogue



Hypothetical Case



Letters


Notes


Bibliography


Index