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Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph.
Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 279 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780521703987
- 0521703980
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Plantation owners' spouses -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Women, White -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Social distance -- History -- 19th century
- Households -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Patriarchy -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- E 443 .G55 2008
Contents:
Summary: "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 responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal."--Publisher's description
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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Fiction | Fiction Books | FIC GLYM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5163315 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-263) and index.
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.
"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 responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal."--Publisher's description
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