Engendering Whiteness White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 16271865

Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women's material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries.

About the author

Cecily Jones is Senior Lecturer in Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica

Summary

Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Jones Cecily, Cecily Jones
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.06.2014
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780719064333
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6433-3
• Pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism (Paperb; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Gender, North Carolina, Barbados, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Women, Sexuality, Property Rights, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Colonialism and imperialism, Gender studies: women, Whiteness, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Social Class, Elite society, slave-ownership, slaveholding, European women, black uprisings, meaningful existences, female economic dependence, racial loyalty, private domestic sphere, slave-based societies