Sexuality and Slavery

Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

AvDaina Ramey Berry,Leslie M. Harris

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved. These essays explore consensual sexual intimacy and expression within slave communities, as well as sexual relationships across lines of race, status, and power. Contributors explore sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation, and repression and as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and defiance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:393 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender and Slavery
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Georgia Press
Medarbetare:Clinton,Catherine
ISBN:9780820354040

Utforska kategorier

Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Daina Ramey Berry (Editor) DAINA RAMEY BERRY is the Oliver H. Radkey Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation and Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia.Leslie M. Harris (Editor) LESLIE M. HARRIS is a professor of history at Northwestern University. She is the coeditor, with Ira Berlin, of Slavery in New York and the coeditor, with Daina Ramey Berry, of Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (Georgia).

Recensioner i media

Sexuality and Slavery . . . is a provocative book that contains groundbreaking research. Examining new paradigms for understanding sexuality and intimate relationships in the colonial Americas, the authors challenge existing assumptions and confront the shortcomings of typical approaches used in historical scholarship.