Dispossessed Lives - Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Informationen zum Autor Marisa J. Fuentes is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Klappentext Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Jane: Fugitivity, Space, and Structures of Control in Bridgetown Chapter 2. Rachael and Joanna: Power, Historical Figuring, and Troubling Freedom Chapter 3. Agatha: White Women Slaveowners and the Dialectic of Racialized Gender Chapter 4. Molly: Enslaved Women, Condemnation, and Gendered Terror Chapter 5. "Venus": Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence, and the Archive Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marisa J. Fuentes
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.06.2016
• EAN: 9780812248227
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4822-7
• Seiten: 232
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges