Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (University of South Florida)

Second-Class Daughters

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Produktbeschreibung

Second-Class Daughters examines the lives of 'adoptive daughters' in Brazil: the marginalized informal domestic workers who live in slave-like conditions in the homes of their adoptive families. This powerful account will interest readers invested in the colonial legacies of slavery, as it questions standard ideas about love, family and freedom.

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Produktdetails

• Afro-Latin America
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781009087414
• ISBN-10: 100908741X
• Artikelnr.: 62952012

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is Associate Professor of Sociology, Senior Advisor to the President and Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, and Interim Vice President for Institutional Equity at the University of South Florida. She received a Fulbright grant to Brazil and Ruth Landes Memorial Fellowship to conduct this research. Her first book, The Color of Love, won three book awards, including two from the American Sociological Association (Sections on Emotions and Bodies and Embodiment).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'An iron chain around your soul'; 1. Adopting modern slavery:
Pathways into and discourses of criação; 2. 'Quase da família' (almost
family): Affective ambiguity and family theater as strategies of
domination; 3. Prisoners of love: Affective captivity and ruptures in the
family ideology; 4. The depths and debts of gratitude: The moral code of
criação; 5. Family bonds and bondage: Intra-generational relationships and
the persistence of Criação; 6. Home sick: Health and disability among adult
filhas de criação; 7. Freedom to 'live her liberty': From existence to
resistance among filhas de criação; Conclusion: The last of our kind:
Onward to freedom.