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by: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.40975
EAN: 9780807842324
ISBN: 080784232X
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 563
Publication Date: December 09, 1988
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Sales Rank: 198008
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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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.
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Rating: - Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women on the Old South (Gender and American Culture)
Everything arrived in perfect order
Rating: - Scholarly and Enlightening
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 ... Read More
Rating: - An interesting and very good attempt
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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