UID:
edoccha_9959148372902883
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
1-134-26870-X
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1-134-26869-6
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0-203-67601-7
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures ; 3
Content:
This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Note:
Belly women : slave women's childbirth practices -- Pickeniny mummas : slave women's childrearing practices -- Deviant and dangerous : slave women's sexuality -- Till death do us part? : slave wives and slave husbands -- The indecency of the lash -- Slavery by another name.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-35026-3
Language:
English
