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From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal codes seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrongs."Unwritten law" seemed to justify the killing-or at least maiming-of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inappropriate comment offended southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or the "sanctity of marriage." Illicit sex is t...Show more
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ISBN
9780896729810
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Published year
2016
Language
Edition
1
Original title
Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law
Format
Paperback
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