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