"Rape in Chicago challenges scholars and activists to rethink their assumptions about rape, race, and the law. The work provides essential revisions to our historical understanding of sexual violence and is a much-needed addition to the literature."--Journal of Illinois History
"Rape in Chicago is a very significant book and Flood has done a masterful job of demonstrating how myths, once created, wind their way through history, reshaping themselves--or being reshaped--to conform to different historical exigencies."--H-Net Review / H-Law
With its holistic focus, and thorough analysis, this book has an insightful and novel perspective, and is a beneficial read for anyone attempting to understand the modern underpinnings of rape myths and the potential for the power of individual agency to create change.--Contemporary Sociology
"Rape in Chicago contributes new arguments to emerging scholarship on the history of rape. It also provides a detailed analysis of how rape convictions were appealed over time in one major city."--American Historical Review
"This crisply written study provides an important corrective to the existing historiography of rape prosecutions in the twentieth century. It will reshape how future scholars understand sex crimes and the law in modern America."--Lisa Lindquist Dorr, author of White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 19001960