| Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South Contributor(s): Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 080784232X ISBN-13: 9780807842324 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1988 Annotation: This important book challenges many current notions about antebellum southern women, white and black. Bound in a web of intimacy fraught with violence, the lives of slave women were intertwined, but they were never linked in sisterhood. Although mistresses and slaves shared a common household, they were radically different from each other, and Within the Plantation Household documents the difficult class relations between slaveholding and slave women. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 88040139 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Series: Gender and American Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.51" H x 5.97" W x 9.27" (1.84 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007) was Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Emory University. Her other books include Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism and Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. |