Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity by Lisa Duggan

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Lisa Duggan

328 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime challenging informative slow-paced
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On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and...

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