Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present

Name: Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780375707469

ISBN-10: 0375707468

ISBN-13: 9780375707469

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Authors: Mary Frances Berry

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"Sweeping and important.... Provides a fascinating vision of justice and history." --The Washington Post Book World From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission comes a landmark study of the ways in which prejudice has shaped American justice from the Civil War era to the present. With an ear tuned to the social subtext of every judicial decision, Mary Frances Berry examines a century's worth of appellate cases, ranging from a nineteenth-century Alabama case in which a white woman was denied her divorce petition because an affair between a white man (her husband) and a black woman (his lover) was "of no consequence," to such recent, high-profile cases as the William Kennedy Smith and…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Introduction



The Protection of Home and Hearth: Sex Outside of Marriage



The Crime That had no Name: Narratives of Gay and Lesbian Sex



Of Concubine and Mistress



The Business of Sex



Promise Her Anything: Seduction and Its Benefits



The Wages of Sex: Child Support, Abortion, and Infanticide



Suffer the Children: Incest and Child Rape



The Pig Farmer's Daughter: Rape and Rumors of Rape


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index