Contested Bodies - Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

Informationen zum Autor Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. Klappentext Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. Zusammenfassung Contested Bodies explores how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children. Examining the struggles for control over biological reproduction! Turner shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work! the care of slaves! and the development of their culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Transforming Bodies Chapter 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition Chapter 2. "The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed": The Quest for Biological Reproduction Chapter 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment Chapter 4. "Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good": Struggles over Maternal Health Care Chapter 5. "Dead Before the Ninth Day": Struggles over Neonatal Care Chapter 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children's Survival Chapter 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood Conclusion. Transforming Slavery Notes Sources Index Acknowledgments

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sasha Turner
• Edition: University of pennsylvania pr
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780812249187
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4918-7
• Pages: 328
• Thèmes: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays