Redefining Rape

Redefining Rape
Author: Estelle B. Freedman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674728505

Rape has never had a universally accepted definition, and the uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that it remains a word in flux. Redefining Rape tells the story of the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the United States, through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change. In this ambitious new history, Estelle Freedman demonstrates that our definition of rape has depended heavily on dynamics of political power and social privilege. The long-dominant view of rape in America envisioned a brutal attack on a chaste white woman by a male stranger, usually an African American. From the early nineteenth century, advocates for women's rights and racial justice challenged this narrow definition and the sexual and political power of white men that it sustained. Between the 1870s and the 1930s, at the height of racial segregation and lynching, and amid the campaign for woman suffrage, women's rights supporters and African American activists tried to expand understandings of rape in order to gain legal protection from coercive sexual relations, assaults by white men on black women, street harassment, and the sexual abuse of children. By redefining rape, they sought to redraw the very boundaries of citizenship. Freedman narrates the victories, defeats, and limitations of these and other reform efforts. The modern civil rights and feminist movements, she points out, continue to grapple with both the insights and the dilemmas of these first campaigns to redefine rape in American law and culture.

Getting Under Our Skin

Getting Under Our Skin
Author: Lisa T. Sarasohn
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421441381

"Vermin are not only pestering; they shape the way people look at each other and are a way that some people get to feel superior to others"--

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Ceramics in the Victorian Era
Author: Rachel Gotlieb
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350354864

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations. Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics. Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics' agencies at this time.

Book Auction Records

Book Auction Records
Author: Frank Karslake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 980
Release: 1922
Genre: Autographs
ISBN:

A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Library Journal

Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1036
Release: 1905
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.