Out of the House of Bondage

ISBN-13: 9780521879019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 294 str.

Thavolia Glymph

Opis

Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.

Recenzje

"Out of the House of Bondage presents a theoretically sophisticated, tightly argued challenge to the existing scholarship on black and white women in the nineteenth century South." -Frank Towers, Labour/Le Travail

Spis treści

1. The gender of violence; 2. 'Beyond the limits of decency': women in slavery; 3. Making 'better girls': Southern women and the claims of domesticity; 4. 'Nothing but deception in them': the war within; 5. Out of the house of bondage: a sundering of ties, 1865–6; 6. 'A makeshift kind of life': free women and free homes; 7. 'Wild notions of right and wrong': from home to the streets.