Author : Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300137869
Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the editors ask how conceptions of slavery & gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, & Britain.
Author : Ana Stevenson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030244668
This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, this book examines the influence of the woman-slave analogy in popular culture along with its use across the dress reform, labor, suffrage, free love, racial uplift, and anti-vice movements. At once provocative and commonplace, the woman-slave analogy was used to exceptionally varied ends in the era of chattel slavery and slave emancipation. Yet, as this book reveals, a more diverse assembly of reformers both accepted and embraced a woman-as-slave worldview than has previously been appreciated. One of the most significant yet controversial rhetorical strategies in the history of feminism, the legacy of the woman-slave analogy continues to underpin the debates that shape feminist theory today.
Author : Erica L. Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108493408
A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Author : Nancy E. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108266223
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300145063
Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War.
Author : Sarah N. Roth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1139992805
In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble black martyr. This radical reshaping of black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture.
Author : Gay Gibson Cima
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107060893
Performing Anti-Slavery demonstrates how black and white abolitionist women transformed antebellum performance practice into a critique of state violence.
Author : J. Brent Morris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 1469618273
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
Author : Clare Midgley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526119684
This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how feminist historians can play a central role in creating new histories of British imperialism. Chronologically, the focus is on the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries, while geographically the essays range from the Caribbean to Australia and span India, Africa, Ireland and Britain itself. Topics explored include the question of female agency in imperial contexts, the relationships between feminism and nationalism, and questions of sexuality, masculinity and imperial power.
