Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (659 p)
Edition:
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Print version Sex, Power, and Slavery
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306.3/6209
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1: Slavery, Sex, and Dehumanization; 2: Sexuality and Slavery in the Western Sudan; 3: Sex and Power in the Russian Institutions of Slavery and Serfdom; 4: Suria- Concubine or Secondary Slave Wife?; 5: A Sexual Order in the Making; 6: "To Marry One's Slave is as Easy as Eating a Meal"; 7: Slavery, Family Life, and the African Diaspora in the Arabian Gulf, 1880-1940; 8: "I Ask for Divorce because my Husband Does Not Let Me Go Back to my Country of Origin with my Brother"; 9: The Fatal Sorbet
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10: Sexual Relations Between the Enslaved and Between Slaves and Nonslaves in Nineteenth-Century Cuba11: "This Complicated Incest""; 12: Strategies for Social Mobility; 13: Japanese Brothel Prostitution, Daily Life, and the Client; 14: Body-Price; 15: Sex Slavery and Human Trafficking in Nigeria-An Overview; 16: The Realities and Rise of Female Sex Trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia, 1960-Present; 17: The Japanese Army and Comfort Women in World War II; 18: Hidden Geographies of the Cape; 19: Innocence Curtailed; 20: Gender, Sex, and Power; 21: "To Lever's on Soap!"
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22: Sodomy, Love, and Slavery in Colonial Brazil23: Eunuchs, Power, and Slavery in the Early Islamic World; 24: Slaves, Coolies, and Garrison Whores; 25: Lure of the Impure; 26: Wages of Womanhood; Contributors; Index
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