Keira V Williams: 2 books
Amazons in America
Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media—constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in...
Gendered Politics in the Modern South
The Susan Smith Case and the Rise of a New Sexism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In the fall of 1994 Susan Smith, a young mother from Union, South Carolina, reported that an African American male carjacker had kidnapped her two children. The news sparked a multi-state investigation and evoked nationwide sympathy. Nine days later, she confessed to drowning the boys in a nearby...