Personal Property
Subtitle: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 24, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780801872549
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers; Social history; Women's studies; Women Authors; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Women's Studies - History; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory
First sentence: A 1910 white slavery narrative, "The True Story of Estelle Ramon," tells of a young woman whose widowed mother has pressured her into marrying a flashy stranger from the city.