Cecily Jones

Engendering whiteness

White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865

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Produktbeschreibung

Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women's material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780719064333
• ISBN-10: 0719064333
• Artikelnr.: 40477696

Autorenporträt

Cecily Jones is Senior Lecturer in Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in
Barbados 2. 'Worse than [white] men, much worse than the negroes...':
sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina 3. To serve her
own desires': white Barbadian women and property holding 4. 'There may be
my sphere of usefulness...': the making of a North Carolinian plantation
mistress 5. White Lives, black bodies: barbadian women and slaveholding 6.
'She Would Labor Almost Night and Day': white women, property rights and
slave-holding in North Carolina Conclusions Bibliography Index