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A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers Weekly
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.
If the law cannot protect a person
...A "provocative, colloquial and entertaining" (Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement) exploration of medieval thinking about women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior.
"A timely corrective...Ms. Janega's witty but merciless dissection of medieval misogyny is a welcome challenge to us to stop recycling the same old prejudices."—Elizabeth Lowry, Wall Street Journal
What makes for the ideal woman? How
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