Sex, power, and slavery /
Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example, in some societies to bear the children of a mas...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement. Across many different societies, slaves were considered to own neither their bodies nor their children, even if many struggled to resist. At the same time, paradoxes abound: for example, in some societies to bear the children of a master was a potential route to manumission for some women. Sex, Power, and Slavery is the first history of slavery and bondage to take sexuality seriously. Twenty-six authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds look at the vexed, traumatic intersections of the histories of slavery and of sexuality. T. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 646 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821444900 0821444905 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
