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.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in Barbados
2. 'Worse than [white] men, much worse than the negroes...': sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina
3. To serve her own desires': white Barbadian women and property holding
4. 'There may be my sphere of usefulness...': the making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress
5. White Lives, black bodies: barbadian women and slaveholding
6. 'She Would Labor Almost Night and Day': white women, property rights and slave-holding in North Carolina
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

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: Cecily Jones
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780719064333
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6433-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism (Paperb; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous