Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white

In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focus

Examines the significance of the abolition of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony in 1834 and the subsequent development of race relations.

In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which

This book consists of a range of essays written by historians and literary critics which examine the historical construction of Southern masculinities, rich and