Engendering whiteness : white women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865 /
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| Author / Creator: | Jones, Cecily. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. |
| Description: | xi, 237 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in imperialism Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6618596 |
Table of Contents:
- General editor's introduction
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in Barbados
- 2. 'Worse than [white] men, much worse than the Negroes...': sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina
- 3. 'To serve her own desires': white women and property holding in Barbadian plantation society
- 4. 'There may be my sphere of usefulness...': the making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress
- 5. White lives, black bodies: Barbadian women and slaveholding
- 6. 'She Would Labor Almost Night and Day': white women, property rights and slaveholding in North Carolina
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
