Out of the House of Bondage
Subtitle: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521703987
Subjects: American history; Social history; Women's studies; History; Sociology; History: American; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Sociology - Rural; United States - 19th Century; History / United States / 19th Century; 19th century; African American women; Plantation life; Social conditions; Southern States; Women slaves
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." -- Publisher's description.