Out of the House of Bondage The Transformation of the Plantation Household
"This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39743421*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Gender of Violence
- Beyond the Limits of Decency: Women in Slavery
- Making Better Girls: Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity
- Nothing but Deception in Them: The War Within
- Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866
- Makeshift Kind of Life: Free Women and Free Homes
- Wild Notions of Right and Wrong: From the Plantation Household to the Wider World.
