This chapter examines the collective killing of women and children, demonstrating that the lynching of female and juvenile victims occurred more often than scholars have appreciated and that the practice reflected, in its own particular way, lynchers' elastic, masculinist ideology. The lynching of women has long been shrouded by a kind of historical amnesia. In part, this is due to the limited sources; many of the cases received only cursory newspaper coverage and very few generated court records. Modern scholarship has also relied heavily on the annual lists of lynchings published by the Chicago Tribune, the Tuskegee Institute, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As historians have pointed out, the traditional periodization of modern lynching scholarship also excludes much of the long history of mob violence against people of Mexican origin or descent.
