| Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household Contributor(s): Glymph, Thavolia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521703980 ISBN-13: 9780521703987 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2008 Annotation: Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as ???friends??? and ???allies??? of slaves in the plantation household. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 307.720 |
| LCCN: 2007017918 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" L (0.95 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - South |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents |
| Review Citations: Choice 03/01/2009 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Glymph, Thavolia: - Thavolia Glymph (Ph.D. Economic History, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Duke University. She has co-edited two volumes of the award-winning Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation series and published scholarly articles in five book collections. Glymph's far-ranging experience as a scholar and educator extends to various teaching appointments and museum projects. Her current work focuses on a comparative study of plantation households in Brazil and the US South, Civil War soldiers in Egypt after the Civil War, and a history of women in the Civil War. |
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