| Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas Contributor(s): Berry, Daina (Editor), Harris, Leslie M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 082035404X ISBN-13: 9780820354040 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 306.770 |
| LCCN: 2018003955 |
| Series: Gender and Slavery |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 8.8" (0.80 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harris, Leslie M.: - 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). |