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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300069707
ISBN-139780300069709
eBay Product ID (ePID)1145866
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameWhite Women, Black Men : Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
SubjectHuman Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Gender Studies, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Women's Studies, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
AuthorMartha Hodes
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight22.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN97-009320
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal306.7/0975/09034
SynopsisThis is a history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America's past: liaisons between southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes explores the complex ways in which white southerners tolerated these relationships, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation.