Sapphic Slashers Sex, Violence, and American Modernity |
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| Author:
| Duggan, Lisa |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-2609-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $107.95 |
Book Description:
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Retells and analyses 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.
Retells and analyses 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.