| Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society Contributor(s): Lauderdale Graham, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511802978 ISBN-13: 9780511802973 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $191.25 Product Type: Open Ebook Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| Series: New Approaches to the Americas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male, through these compact histories. |