Gender, mastery and slavery
Subtitle: from European to Atlantic world frontiers
By: William Henry Foster.
Series: Gender and history series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781403987075; 9781403987082
Subjects: Sex role -- History; Man-woman relationships -- History; Slavery -- History
Description: "Bill Foster's clear survey of this lively field provides a critical overview of current scholarship. Taking a thematic and comparative approach to fit with course needs, Foster couples case studies from the Americas with comparative perspectives from the ancient and medieval worlds, the Pacific and the Christian-Muslim slave frontier"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface and Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Women, Men and the Exchange of Human Property; title: Problems of Ownership; title: Problems of Rhetoric; title: Problems of Control; title: Problems of Sexuality; title: Problems of Family; title: Problems of Race; title: Problems of Colonialism and Nationalism; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.