Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

TitleOut of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsGlymph, Thavolia
Number of Pages292
PublisherCambridge University Press
CityNew York
Abstract

This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal.

URLhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/out-of-the-house-of-bondage/05C1AF810A2C54D2236698AA8955C092
Entry by GWC Assistants / Work by GWC Assistants : 
YMT

Type of Literature:

Countries:

Library Location: 
Call Number: 
128236460

Library: