Gender and Lynching

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Gender and Lynching merges accounts of sexual violence and lynching for the purpose of writing a corrective history. Where much of the scholarship on lynching and its victims has focused on African American men, Gender and Lynching centers African American women in this history via a collection of original essays. Contributors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims who suffered at the hands of vigilante lynch mobs in unprecedented and innovative ways, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.