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Gender and slave emancipation in the Atlantic world / edited by Pamela Scully and Diana Paton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--America.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Caribbean Area.
- Sex role--America--History.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--Caribbean Area--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Gender and slave emancipation in comparative perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully
- Masculinity, citizenship, and the production of knowledge in the postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834-1844 / Pamela Scully
- Negresse, mulatresse, citoyenne : gender and emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650-1848 / Sue Peabody
- Acting as free men : subaltern masculinities and citizenship in postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller
- Women and notions of womanhood in Brazilian abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson
- A nation's sin : white women and U.S. policy toward freedpeople / Carol Faulkner
- Family strategies, gender, and the shift to wage labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton
- Gender and emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts
- Two stories of gender and slave emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, central Cuba : a microhistorical approach to the Atlantic world / Michael Zeuske
- Libertos and libertas in the construction of the free worker in postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodriguez-Silva
- Philanthropy, gender, and the production of public life in Barbados, ca. 1790-ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton
- Young ladies and dissolute women : conflicting views of culture and gender in public entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838-1888 / Sheena Boa
- Mulatas, crioulos, and morenas : racial hierarchy, gender relations, and national identity in postabolition popular song : southeastern Brazil, 1890-1920 / Martha Abreu ; translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan
- The rhetoric of miscegenation and the reconstruction of race : debating marriage, sex, and citizenship in postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen
- Gender and the politics of the household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1878 / Marek Steedman
- Bibliographic essay / Diana Paton.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822387466
- 0822387468
- OCLC:
- 654495301
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