The racial character of the anti-colonial discourse in the Caribbean had the effect of removing from centre stage the essential maleness of the targeted colonial historiography. This text focuses attention on women's location at the centre of a male-managed colonial world that simultaneously sought their otherness through objectified forms of discourse. The author seeks to comprehend the complex network of relationships that constitute gender domination,to expose how these relations determined the lives of women in slave societies, and to explore the effectiveness of women's agency in the search for autonomy, social justice and material improvement in their lives.
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 183 mm
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978-0-85255-772-3 (9780852557723)
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Introduction - historicizing "woman" and slavery. Part I Subjections: Black women and the political economy of slavery; property rights in pleasure - marketing enslaved women's sexuality; Phibbah's price - a Jamaican "wife" for Thomas Thistlewood. Part II Subscriptions: White women and freedom; Fenwicks fortune - a white woman's West India dream; a governor's wife's tale - Lady Nugent's "Blackies"; a planter's wife's tale - Mrs Carmichael's pro-slavery discourse. Part III Subversions: Old Doll's daughters - flight from bondage and blackness; an economic life of their own - enslaved women as entrepreneurs; taking liberties - enslaved women and anti-slavery politics. Summation - historicizing slavery in Caribbean feminism.
