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Sapphic Slashers

Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Автор: Lisa Duggan

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Duke University Press

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On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Lisa Duggan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2001

страници

328

EAN

9780822326090

ISBN

0822326094

Enbook ID

04937340

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

608

Размери

162 x 236 x 28

Пълно описание

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 narratives (and its resistant versions, such as those of Memphis anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells) Duggan reveals how stories of sex and violence were crucial to the development of American modernity. While careful to point out the differences between the public reigns of terror that led to many lynchings and the rarer instances of the murder of one woman by another privately motivated woman, Duggan asserts that dominant versions of both sets of stories contributed to the marginalisation of African Americans and women while solidifying a distinctly white, male, heterosexual form of American citizenship. Having explored the role of turn-of-the-century print media - and in particular their tendency toward sensationalism - Duggan moves next to a review of sexology literature and to novels, most notably Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Sapphic Slashers concludes with two appendices, one of which presents a detailed summary of Ward's murder, the trial, and Mitchell's eventual institutionalisation. The other presents transcriptions of letters exchanged between the two women prior to the crime. Combining cultural history, feminist and queer theory, narrative analysis, and compelling storytelling, Sapphic Slashers provides the first history of the emergence of the lesbian in twentieth-century mass culture.