Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521703980
ISBN13:9780521703987
Release Date:June 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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