Print version: Freedman, Estelle B. Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013 387 pages ISBN 9780674724846
Includes bibliographical references and index
The narrowing meaning of rape -- The crime of seduction -- Empowering white women -- Contesting the rape of Black women -- The racialization of rape and lynching -- African Americans redefine sexual violence -- Raising the age of consent -- From protection to sexualization -- The sexual vulnerability of boys -- "Smashing the masher" -- After suffrage -- The anti-lynching movement -- Scottsboro and its legacies -- The enduring politics of rape.