Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

* Introduction: In Black and White *1. The Horrors of War *2. The Violent Transition from Freedom to Segregation *3. Southern White Women and the Anti-rape Movement *4. Organizing in Defense of Black Womanhood *5. New Southern Women and the Triumph of White Supremacy *6. The Lynching of Black and White Women *7. Equal Rights for Southern Women *8. The Gender and Racial Politics of the Anti-lynching Movement * Appendix: List of Female Victims of Lynching

Crystal N. Feimster is Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department and American Studies Program at Yale University.

Fascinating...Feimster's account challenges us to think again about race and sexual politics...[A] rich and detailed account...The work of Rebecca Felton and Ida Wells engaged with the implications of a form (although not a unique one) of sexual politics, and Feimster's account should be rightly acclaimed as testament to these projects. -- Mary Evans Times Higher Education 20091203 Historian Crystal N. Feimster provides an opportunity to better understand the lack of sympathy between black and white suffragists and how lynching spurred both to the political activism that eventually won women the vote...This account leaves us with a sense of what made the fights for racial equality and women's suffrage so complicated and contentious. We're left, too, with an appreciation of the gumption both Wells and Felton showed entering a political fray resistant to their participation and unable to conceive of changes that seem so obviously necessary in hindsight. -- Margaret Wheeler Johnson Double X 20100115 An interesting, though somewhat disheartening, tale of the times, this book is destined for a special place in the classrooms and libraries of those concerned with sexual and racial politics. It is a readable study for those simply interested in the historical account, and is made so by multiple narratives of affected citizens, passages from diaries and newspapers, as well as the lives of the two main scholars. -- Allena Tapia San Francisco Book Review 20100108