Jennifer L. Morgan

Laboring Women

Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How childbearing among enslaved women became commodified--and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.

Produktdetails

• Early American Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780812218732
• ISBN-10: 0812218736
• Artikelnr.: 21117056

Autorenporträt

Jennifer L. Morgan teaches history and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies,
and the Gendering of Racial Ideology
2. "The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe": The
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles
3. "The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers": Gender and Evolving
Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies
4. "Hannah and Hir Children": Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved
Women
5. "Women's Sweat": Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World
6. "Deluders and Seducers of Each Other": Gender and the Changing Nature of
Resistance