Jones Engendering whiteness

White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627–1865
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1809-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 66, 256 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Cecily

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
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

Über Autor(innen)

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