
Revolt Against Chivalry
Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall(Author)
Columbia University Press
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. September 1993
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-231-08282-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Trade binding
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-08282-2 (9780231082822)
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Revolt Against Chivalry
Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching
Book
09/1993
2nd Edition
Columbia University Press
€39.68
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Person
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.
Content
Beginnings; out of obscurity; a bond of common womanhood; the double role; a strange and bitter fruit; a movement of southern white women; deeply buried causes; a choice of tactics; quietly but definitely allowed to die.