Flood, Dawn Rae. <br/><br/>
Rape in Chicago :  race, myth, and the courts / 
Dawn Rae Flood. 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Women in American history Rape in Chicago .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Rape victims and the modern justice system --  The power of racial rape myths after World War II --  Black victims and postwar trial strategies --  Order in the court --  Second-wave feminists (re)discover rape --  Conclusion: ripped from the headlines. 
<br/><br/> Spanning a period of four tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s, this study reassesses the ways in which Chicagoans negotiated the extraordinary challenges of rape, as either victims or accused perpetrators. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252094415 9781283582742 9786613895196 6613895199 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019717402 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rape--History.--Illinois--Chicago<br/>Rape--Public opinion--History.<br/>Rape victims--Illinois--Chicago.<br/>African Americans--Sexual behavior--Illinois--Chicago.<br/>Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Illinois--Chicago.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV6568  / .R374 2012