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Black Venus 2010
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- Willis, Deborah > [ed]
Black Venus 2010
Her name was Sarah Baartman. Born in South Africa in 1789, she died in Paris in 1815—after five years of being displayed (sometimes in a cage) for entertainment and scientific study: her pickled buttocks and genitalia remained on public display at the Musée de l'Homme until 1974 and her remains were finally returned to South Africa in 2002. During her period of fame and exploitation, she was known as the Hottentot Venus. Willis offers an anthology that embraces scholarly and lyrical, historical and reflexive responses to Baartman, as a woman, as a black woman, as an object, as an icon, as an inspiration to creative artists, and as a catalyst to scholars. The book moves from Baartman's life and times to an assessment of the figure of the Hottentot Venus in contemporary art and a broader consideration of the historic public display of black women.- Creator
- Willis, Deborah > [ed]
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Women's America
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- Kerber, Linda K. > (ed.)
- De Hart, Jane Sherron > (ed.)
Women's America
Bundel met ongeveer 90 artikelen, waarvan sommige eerder verschenen, over verschillende onderwerpen uit de geschiedenis van vrouwen in Amerika, vanaf de 17e eeuw. In vergelijk met de vorige edities zijn er nu meer artikelen opgenomen over etniciteit en over anti-feministische groeperingen. Naast artikelen zijn teksten van historische documenten opgenomen. Het boek is chronologisch ingedeeld, in vier delen. Elk deel begint met een korte introductie waarin de belangrijkste kenmerken van de historische periode worden aangegeven.- Creator
- Kerber, Linda K. > (ed.)
- De Hart, Jane Sherron > (ed.)
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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
- Creator
- Crais, Clifton
- Scully, Pamela
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day. She was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an illusive life and a famous icon. The book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa.- Creator
- Crais, Clifton
- Scully, Pamela
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Executing race
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- Harris, Sharon M.
Executing race
Executing Race examines the multiple ways in which race, class, and the law impacted women’s lives in the 18th century and, equally important, the ways in which women sought to change legal and cultural attitudes in this volatile period. Through an examination of infanticide cases, Harris reveals how conceptualizations of women, especially their bodies and their legal rights, evolved over the course of the 18th century. Early in the century, infanticide cases incorporated the rhetoric of the witch trials. However, at mid-century, a few women, especially African American women, began to challenge definitions of “bastardy” (a legal requirement for infanticide), and by the end of the century, women were rarely executed for this crime as the new nation reconsidered illegitimacy in relation to its own struggle to establish political legitimacy. Against this background of legal domination of women’s lives, Harris exposes the ways in which women writers and activists negotiated legal territory to invoke their voices into the radically changing legal discourse.- Creator
- Harris, Sharon M.
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Subjects and citizens
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- Moon, Michael > (ed.)
- Davidson, Cathy N. > (ed.)
Subjects and citizens
De essays laten zien hoe ras en sekse de ideeën over natie en nIationalisme beïnvloeden en wat hun invloed is op de Amerikaanse literaire geschiedenis. In deze bundel worden de werken van schrijvers als Aphra Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances Harper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Bharati Mukherjee, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Américo Paredes en Toni Morrison besproken vanuit verschillende theoretische standpunten en vanuit een grote verscheidenheid van methodologieën.- Creator
- Moon, Michael > (ed.)
- Davidson, Cathy N. > (ed.)
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Gender, race, and rank in a revolutionary age
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- Wood, Betty
- Thompson, Ruth Anne > (forew.)
Gender, race, and rank in a revolutionary age
This book contains essays in which the relationships among women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Georgia, United States, are analysed. Wood focuses on three sets of female relationships: between enslaved and free women of colour, among white slaveholding women, and among white women of different classes.- Creator
- Wood, Betty
- Thompson, Ruth Anne > (forew.)
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