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Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching

by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

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Publisher Comments:

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.

Synopsis:

"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.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-393) and index.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780231082839
Subtitle:
Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching
Author:
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Political
Subject:
History
Subject:
United States - General
Subject:
Women's Studies - History
Subject:
Lynching
Subject:
Social reformers
Subject:
Social reformers -- Biography.
Subject:
Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
Subject:
Ames, Jessie Daniel
Subject:
Lynching -- United States.
Edition Number:
Rev. ed.
Edition Description:
Revised
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
October 1993
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
305
Dimensions:
8.96x6.16x1.06 in. 1.60 lbs.

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