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Engendering islands : sexuality, reproduction, and violence in the early french caribbean / Ashley M. Williard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williard, Ashley M., author.
- Series:
- Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--West Indies, French--History.
- Slavery.
- Sex role--West Indies, French--History.
- Sex role.
- France--Colonies--Race relations.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Engendering Islands demonstrates how problematics of gender played a central role in defining colonial others, male and female, at the moment when slavery was first introduced in the French-controlled Antilles"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: bodies and archives in the early French Caribbean
- Evangelism between the cultural and the corporeal
- Colonial marriage and the production of cloistered white femininity
- Cannibals, pirates, and the authorization of colonial violence
- Dishonoring and debilitating Black masculinity
- Conclusion: memory and forgetting in the French Atlantic.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-2024-2
- OCLC:
- 1247157978
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