Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South Revised Edition Contributor(s): White, Deborah Gray (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393314812 ISBN-13: 9780393314816 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: This new edition reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Slavery |
Dewey: 975.004 |
LCCN: 99218115 |
Lexile Measure: 1480 |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.46" W x 8.38" (0.52 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South--their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds. Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians. |
Contributor Bio(s): White, Deborah Gray: - Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Ar'n't I A Woman? and Too Heavy a Load, amongst other books. |