Laboring Women - Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer L. Morgan teaches history and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Klappentext How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified--and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves. Zusammenfassung How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified-and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology 2. "The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe": The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles 3. "The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers": Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies 4. "Hannah and Hir Children": Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women 5. "Women's Sweat": Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World 6. "Deluders and Seducers of Each Other": Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jennifer Morgan, Jennifer L Morgan, Jennifer L. Morgan, MORGAN JENNIFER L
• Edition: University of pennsylvania pr
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 25.02.2004
• EAN: 9780812218732
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1873-2
• Pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Thèmes: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques