Caetana Says No - Women''s Stories From a Brazilian Slave Society

Klappentext This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman struggling to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assuming a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. But these women's stories cannot be told without also recalling how their decisions drew them ever more firmly into the orbits of the worldly and influential men who exercised power in their lives. These are stories with a twist: in this society of radically skewed power, Lauderdale Graham reveals that more choices existed for all sides than we first imagine. Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male. Zusammenfassung Two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave! the other old and from an illustrious family - fight against the men in their lives. Through these small histories Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free! female and male. This book was first published in 2002. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The First Story: Caetana Says No: Patriarchy Confounded; Part II. The Second Story: Inacia Wills her Way: Patriarchy Confirmed.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Lauderdale Graham
• Assisted by: Stuart Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521893534
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89353-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls