Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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Book Overview
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080784232X
ISBN13:9780807842324
Release Date:December 1988
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:544 Pages
Weight:1.98 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.0" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women on the Old South (Gender and American Culture
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Everything arrived in perfect order
Scholarly and Enlightening
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese has produced a very scholarly and enlightening examination of women of the old South. In vivid detailed with painstaking research, she presents the daily lives of women, black and white, within the plantation household. Though written from an academic perspective, the author has succeeded in presenting her research in an entertaining and even captivating narrative style. For those looking for the behind the scenes lifestyle of unknown women of the South, this is the one book of choice. Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of "Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction." He has also authored "Soul Physicians," "Spiritual Friends," and the forthcoming "Sacred Friendships: Listening to the Voices of Women Soul Care-Givers and Spiritual Directors."
An interesting and very good attempt
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is an impressive and large-scale achievement. I would have appreciated more acknowledgment of the role that white male eurocentric paradigms played (and continue to play) in the south and oppresion of Women of Color. Overall, a good starting place.
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