Out of the House of Bondage

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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Race relations,  White Women,  History,  Women slaves,  Plantation life,  Households,  African American women,  Social conditions,  Plantation owners' spouses,  Social distance,  Patriarchy,  Women, united states, social conditions,  Slaves, united states, social conditions,  Southern states, social conditions,  Slaveholders,  Southern states, race relations,  Southern states, social life and customs,  Vie dans les plantations,  Histoire,  Femmes esclaves,  Conditions sociales,  Noires américaines,  Propriétaires de plantations,  Conjoints,  Blanches,  Distance sociale,  Ménages (Statistique),  Patriarcat (Sociologie),  Relations raciales,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Sociology,  Rural,  Manners and customs,  Plantagenbesitzer,  Ehefrau,  Weibliche Weiße,  Haushalt,  Soziale Situation,  Plantage,  Sklavin,  Schwarze Frau,  Südstaaten