Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Product Description
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
- Used Book in Good Condition
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal.
Technical Specifications
You might also like
A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Early American Studies)
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power