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dc.contributor.authorNicolas, Taylor
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-17T17:18:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-17T17:18:24Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.citationTaylor Nicolas, " Who Was Your Grandfather on Your Mother's Side?" Seduction, Race, and Gender in 1932 Virginia, 35 YALE JL & HUMAN. 851 (2024).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/18498
dc.descriptionVol. 35:4en_US
dc.description.abstractWas Dorothy Short Black? And, more importantly, did she know it? These questions, odd-sounding and perhaps unsettling to the contemporary reader, were the ones raised by Leonard Harry Wood in the hopes of avoiding prison for the crime of seduction. This Article examines the story of Dorothy Short and Leonard Wood, their relationship, and the criminal case that followed it in order to explore the ways in which seduction laws worked to create ( and recreate) gendered categories of race. The Article's main contribution is shedding new light on the 1932 Virginia Supreme Court case Wood v. Commonwealth of Virginia, and more broadly on the ways in which seduction jurisprudence influenced racialized understandings of gender.en_US
dc.publisherYale Journal of Law & the Humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectRace; Gender; Virginia Supreme Court; Wood v. Commonwealth of Virginiaen_US
dc.title"Who Was Your Grandfather on Your Mother's Side?" Seduction, Race, and Gender in 1932 Virginiaen_US
rioxxterms.versionNAen_US
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_US
refterms.dateFOA2025-01-17T17:18:25Z
refterms.dateFirstOnline2025


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