Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave SocietyThe racial character of the anti-colonial discourse in the Caribbean had the effect of removing from centre stage the essential maleness of the targeted colonial historiography. This text focuses attention on women's location at the centre of a male-managed colonial world that simultaneously sought their otherness through objectified forms of discourse. |
Contents
Black Women and the Political Economy of Slavery | 2 |
Marketing Black Womens Sexuality | 22 |
A black wife for Thomas Thistlewood | 38 |
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| Title | Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society |
| Author | Hilary Beckles |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Ian Randle Publishers, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Jan 2010 |
| ISBN | 0852557728, 9780852557723 |
| Length | 211 pages |
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