Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society Contributor(s): Lauderdale Graham, Sandra (Author), Schwartz, Stuart (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521815320 ISBN-13: 9780521815321 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - General - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Europe - Renaissance |
Dewey: 305.489 |
LCCN: 2002067666 |
Series: New Approaches to the Americas |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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. |