Engendering whiteness : white women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina 1627-1865 / Cecily Jones.
Author/creator |
Jones, Cecily author. |
Format | Book and Print |
Distribution Info | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2014. |
Copyright Notice | ©2007 |
Description | xi, 237 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Series | Studies in imperialism Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) ^A231036 |
Contents | Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in Barbados -- 'Worse than (white) men, much worse than the Negroes...' : sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina -- 'To serve her own desires' : white women and property holding in Barbadian plantation society -- 'There may be my sphere of usefulness...': the making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress -- White lives, black bodies: Barbadian women and slaveholding -- 'She would labor almost night and day' : white women, property rights and slaveholding in North Carolina. |
General note | Originally published: 2007. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN | 9780719064333 (pbk.) |
ISBN | 0719064333 (pbk.) |
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Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
Joyner | NC Stacks | HQ1233 .J66 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |