white women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jones, Cecily
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2014
- Thesaurus
- etniciteit, gender, sociale klasse, kolonialisme, seksualiteit, armoede, bezit, eigendomsrecht, slavernij, historisch, Barbados, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Analysis of the interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women's lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery. Description of the ways in which white women could be simultaneously socially positioned within plantation societies as both agents and as victims and the strategies deployed by elite and poor white women to resist their gendered subordination.