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2 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
346 kr
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A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women In the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was a brutal and profitable place. Home to starving, landless farmers, the county produced almost 2 percent of the entire world’s cotton. It was also the site of two rape trials that made national headlines: an accusation that sent two Black men, almost certainly innocent, to death row; and the case of two white men, almost certainly guilty, who were likewise sentenced to death but who would ultimately face a very different fate. Braiding together these stories, Scott W. Stern examines how the Jim Crow legal system relied on selectively prosecuting rape to uphold the racial, gender, and economic hierarchies of the segregated, unequal South. But as much as rape law was a site of oppression, it was also, Stern shows, an arena of fierce resistance. Based on deep archival research, this kaleidoscopic narrative includes new information about the early career of Thurgood Marshall, who called one of the Mississippi County trials “worse than any we have had as yet,” and the anti-rape activism of Maya Angelou, who came of age in Arkansas and whose decision to write about her own sexual assault helped shape a burgeoning movement.
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
412 kr
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She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than Lear’s daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or female, whose entire life–from youth to old age–appears on stage. She has allowed the likes of Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Mirren and Sophie Okonedo full range for their stunning talents. Yet who was Margaret of Anjou? In the fifteenth century, she was a fourteen-year-old French princess married to an English king, soon thrust into command amid a bloody civil war. A hundred and fifty years later, she is resurrected on the Elizabethan stage in four of Shakespeare’s earliest plays. Since then, every era has recast their own Margaret—highlighted or diminished depending on popular sensibilities around gender. Her story, as it has changed over the centuries across the page and on the stage, shows that Shakespeare’s plays have always been living collaborations among actors, directors, writers, critics and history itself, still unfolding.