"like I was a man": Chain gangs, gender, and the domestic carceral sphere in Jim Crow Georgia

Signs

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-77

  Haley, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84882272765     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670769     Document Type: Article

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