Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Retells and analyzes lesbian love murder stories from the 1890s to the 1930s to show how narratives of sex and violence were used to privatize populations and cultures, substituting a rhetoric of moral pedagogy for democratic debate.

Author(s): Lisa Duggan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001-01-10
Pages: 325
Categories: True Crime