| | White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960, by Lisa Lindquist Dorr. Chapter Excerpt. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Whites' varied responses to charges of fl-on-white rape balanced these interests over the course of the legal process and conceded that not all whites were superior to all fls and that all rape victims, even white women accusing fl men, merited suspicion and scrutiny when they levied their charges. |
 | | It patrolled interracial boundaries and simultaneously upheld the patriarchal power of white males and the class distinctions among all whites that remained despite the frantic insistence that all whites were superior to all fls. |
 | | White men's discussions about a victim's complicity in her violation indicates that whites believed that certain kinds of women, and potentially all women, were untrustworthy, either because they were irrational or because they were deceitful. |
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