Revolt Against Chivalry

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd

ISBN 10: 0231082835 / ISBN 13: 9780231082839

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 1993

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0231082835-3-34120282

Inhaltsangabe:

This newly updated edition connects the past with the present, using the Clarence Thomas hearings -and their characterization by Thomas as a "high-tech lynching"- to examine the links between white supremacy and the sexual abuse of black women, and the difficulty of forging an antiracist movement against sexual violence.

Revolt Against Chivalry is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.

The book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to militant antiracism and provides a detailed description of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which served through the 1930s as the chief expression of antilynching sentiment in the white South.

Revolt Against Chivalry is also a biography of Ames herself: it shows how Ames connected women's opposition to violence with their search for influence and self-definition, thereby leading a revolt against chivalry which was part of both sexual and racial emancipation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Spruill Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also the author of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Revolt Against Chivalry
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good