Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations in the Text; Introduction; Chapter One: Rape and the Law in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States; Chapter Two: Rape as Racial Injustice: Confronting Interracial Rape in the Black Freedom Movement; Chapter Three: Rape Is a Political Crime against Women: An Emerging Feminist Analysis of Rape; Chapter Four: Defining the Injustices of Rape in the Joan Little Rape-Murder Case; Chapter Five: The Challenges of Antirape Activism in the 1970s; Chapter Six: Rape and the Law in the Late 1970s; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H
IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
"According to Jacquet, anti-rape efforts in the postwar period often built upon one another and were intersectional, even if organizers and reformers did not always know it; she argues that without the struggle produced from these sometimes dueling efforts, the kinds of changes that emerged by the 1980s and 1990s would not have been possible. Along the way, Jacquet also uses the activists' efforts to reveal the difficulty of challenging ingrained racist and sexist beliefs and practices, the unevenness of reform, and the necessity of cross-collaboration"-- Provided by publisher
