{"product_id":"revolt-against-chivalry-jessie-daniel-ames-and-the-womens-campaign-against-lynching-paperback","title":"Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacquelyn Dowd Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis newly updated edition connects the past with the present, using the Clarence Thomas hearings -and their characterization by Thomas as a \"high-tech lynching\"- to examine the links between white supremacy and the sexual abuse of black women, and the difficulty of forging an antiracist movement against sexual violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolt Against Chivalry\u003c\/i\u003e is the account of how Jesse Daniel Ames and the antilynching campaign she led fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book traces Ames's political path from suffragism to militant antiracism and provides a detailed description of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which served through the 1930s as the chief expression of antilynching sentiment in the white South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolt Against Chivalry\u003c\/i\u003e is also a biography of Ames herself: it shows how Ames connected women's opposition to violence with their search for influence and self-definition, thereby leading a revolt against chivalry which was part of both sexual and racial emancipation.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevolt Against Chivalry, winner of the Frances B. Simkins and Lillian Smith Awards, is the classic account of how Jessie Daniel Ames - and the antilynching campaign she led - fused the causes of feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacquelyn Dowd Hall is Spruill Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eLike a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 8.96 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329402102067,"sku":"9780231082839","price":75.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/kunHvWpJP9780231082839.webp?v=1778165690","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/revolt-against-chivalry-jessie-daniel-ames-and-the-womens-campaign-against-lynching-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}