Duggan Sapphic Slashers

Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8101-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

Retells and analyzes lesbian love murder stories from the 1890s to the 1930s to show how narratives of sex and violence were used to privatize populations and cultures, substituting a rhetoric of moral pedagogy for democratic debate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duggan, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.