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- Creator
- Cornwall, Andrea > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Tripp, Aili Mari
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- AFR 1A 2005
- Thesaurus
- gender, vrouwbeelden, vrouwelijkheid, mannelijkheid, rolgedrag, feminisme, homoseksualiteit, polygamie, consumenten, kolonialisme, weduwen, huwelijken, meisjes, platteland, geld, geweld, agrarische beroepen, gezinnen, inkomen, betaalde arbeid, ondernemers, spiritualiteit, slavernij, islam, christendom, politieke participatie, nationalisme, historiografie, Afrika, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
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- The writings show how gender relations have been constructed on the African continent and reflect the changes in approach and inquiry that have been brought about as the authors consider gender identities and difference in their work. Specific themes covered here include the contestation and representation of gender, femininity and masculinity: livelihoods and life ways: gender and religion, gender and culture: gender and governance.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Scully, Pamela > (ed.)
- Creator
- Paton, Diana > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Steedman, Marek
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2005
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, mannelijkheid, emancipatie, liefdadigheid, gender, betaalde arbeid, Verenigde Staten, Brazilië, Zuid-Afrika, Caraïbisch gebied, Cuba, 19e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Offering detailed analyses of slave emancipation in specific societies, the contributors discuss all of the diverse actors in emancipation : slaves, abolitionists, free people of colour, state officials, and slave owners. Whether considering the construction of a postslavery masculine subjectivity in Jamaica, the work of two white U.S. abolitionist women with the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, freedwomen's negotiations of labour rights in Puerto Rico, slave women's contributions to the slow unraveling of slavery in French West Africa, or the ways Brazilian abolitionists deployed representations of femininity as virtuous and moral, these essays demonstrate the gains that a gendered apporach offers to understanding the complex processes of emancipation. Some chapters also explore theories and methodologies that enable a gendered reading of postslavery archives. the editors' substantial introduction traces the reasons for and patterns of women's and men's different experiences of emancipation throughout the Atlantic world.
narratives of African American working womanhood
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Santamaria, Xiomara
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 5 2005
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, acties, betaalde arbeid, etniciteit, biografische gegevens, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw
- Description
- According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as 'doers of the word.' In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor. .Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life, Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, and Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes. She argues that beyond black reformers' calls for abolitionist work, these former slaves and freeborn black women wrote about their own overlooked or disparaged work as socially and culturally valuable to the nation. They promoted the status of wage labor as a mark of self-reliance and civic virtue when many viewed African American working women as 'drudges.'
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