Book of the Week: "Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching"
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By definition, Martin Luther King Day both celebrates the end of racial segregation and reminds us of a past this country can never live down. For feminists, a particularly painful aspect of that past is the segregation of the early fight for women’s suffrage. With her new book Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lyching, historian Crystal N.
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It has just dropped a
By: yenter | Tue, 08/04/2009 - 10:31
It has just dropped a interesting stuff to share in the Apex Professionals LLC. I really loved it. I consciously seek out material, and very often that material will be about identity. Not gender identity, but I do realize, as time rolls on and I try to find the lowest common denominator of all my work.
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It has just dropped a
By: yenter | Tue, 08/04/2009 - 10:31
It has just dropped a interesting stuff to share in the Apex Professionals LLC. I really loved it. I consciously seek out material, and very often that material will be about identity. Not gender identity, but I do realize, as time rolls on and I try to find the lowest common denominator of all my work.
regards,