Publication

2008-06-30 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

70,000 words, Guess

Page Count

280 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007017918
  • Goodreads5492012
  • LibraryThing5711653

Classifications

  • LCCE443 .G55 2008

Description

"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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  • Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation HouseholdPaperbackCambridge University Press2008-06-30
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