Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity Paul Lisicky her nephew is having a

her nephew is having a gay crisis

her complex relationship with her own physical body

and unable to forget the horrors he's seen

tense and atmospheric

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity Paul Lisicky her nephew is having aOn a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U. S. mass