Representations of slave women in discourses on slavery and abolition, 1780-1838 / / Henrice Altink

• Autore: Altink Henrice
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 306.3/62082097292
• Soggetto topico: Enslaved women - Jamaica - History; Enslaved women - Jamaica - Public opinion; Slavery - Jamaica - History
• Soggetto non controllato: proslavery; writers; antislavery; writings; female; flogging; apprentices; african; jamaican; mother
• Nota di contenuto: Belly women : slave women's childbirth practices -- Pickeniny mummas : slave women's childrearing practices -- Deviant and dangerous : slave women's sexuality -- Till death do us part? : slave wives and slave husbands -- The indecency of the lash -- Slavery by another name.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
• Titolo autorizzato: Representations of slave women in discourses on slavery and abolition, 1780-1838
• ISBN: 1-134-26870-X; 1-134-26869-6; 0-203-67601-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765858303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II