Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

Author/Contributor(s):	Gross, Kali N
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	06/22/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This study of black women criminals suggests that we might understand more clearly the constructions of virtue, deviance, race, and gender by reading the crimes of women in the context of their lives and their historical moment.