Sasha Turner

Contested Bodies

Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249187
• ISBN-10: 0812249186
• Artikelnr.: 46596305

Autorenporträt

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Quinnipiac University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Transforming Bodies
Chapter 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and
Abolition
Chapter 2. "The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed": The Quest for Biological
Reproduction
Chapter 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and
Punishment
Chapter 4. "Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good": Struggles over Maternal
Health Care
Chapter 5. "Dead Before the Ninth Day": Struggles over Neonatal Care
Chapter 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children's Survival
Chapter 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave
Childhood
Conclusion. Transforming Slavery
Notes
Sources
Index
Acknowledgments