ISBN:
0821420968
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0821420976
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0821444905
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9780821420966
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9780821420973
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9780821444900
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (ix, 646 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sex, power, and slavery
DDC:
306.3/6209
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-2000
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Geschichte
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Sklaverei
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Slavery History
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Sex crimes History
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Women slaves Social conditions
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Slaves Social conditions
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Geschlechterrolle
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Soziale Situation
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Sklavin
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Rechtsstellung
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Sexueller Missbrauch
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Sklaverei
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Sklavin
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Geschlechterrolle
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Soziale Situation
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Rechtsstellung
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Geschichte 1800-2000
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Sklaverei
;
Sexueller Missbrauch
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Geschichte 1800-2000
Description / Table of Contents:
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:
Slavery, sex, and dehumanization / David Brion Davis -- Sexuality and slavery in the Western Sudan / Martin A. Klein -- Sex and power in the Russian institutions of slavery and serfdom / Richard Hellie -- Concubinage, law, and the family Suria: concubine or secondary slave wife? The case of Zanzibar in the nineteenth century / Abdul Sheriff -- A sexual order in the making: wives and slaves in early imperial China / Griet Vankeerberghen -- "To marry one's slave is as easy as eating a meal": the dynamics of carnal relations within Saharan slavery / E. Ann McDougall -- Slavery, family life, and the African diaspora in the Arabian Gulf, 1880-1940 / Matthew S. Hopper -- "I ask for divorce because my husband does not let me go back to my country of origin with my brother": gender, family, and the end of slavery in the region of Kayes, French Sudan, 1890-1920 / Marie Rodet --
Description / Table of Contents:
The fatal sorbet: an account of slavery, jealousy, pregnancy, and murder in a harem in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1850 / George Michael La Rue -- Intimate power: sexuality and slavery in the households of the Atlantic world sexual relations between the enslaved and between slaves and nonslaves in nineteenth-century Cuba / Ulrike Schmieder -- "This complicated incest": children, sexuality, and sexual abuse during slavery and the apprenticeship period in the British Caribbean, 1790-1838 / Tara A. Inniss -- Strategies for social mobility: liaisons between foreign men and slave women in Benguela, ca. 1770-1850 / Mariana P. Candido -- Sex trafficking and prostitution: Japanese brothel prostitution, daily life, and the client: colonial Singapore, 1870-1940 / James Francis Warren -- Body-price: ambiguities in the sale of women at the end of the Qing Dynasty / Johanne Ransmeir -- Sex slavery and human trafficking in Nigeria; an overview / Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch --
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The realities and rise of female sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell -- The Japanese army and comfort women in World War II / Shigeru Sato -- Art, sexuality, and slavery: hidden geographies of the Cape: shifting representations of slavery and sexuality in South African art and fiction / Gabeba Baderoon -- Innocence curtailed: reading maternity and sexuality as labor in Canadian representations of Black girls / Charmaine Nelson -- Gender, sex, and power: images of enslaved women's bodies / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Queering the study of slavery: "To lever's on soap!": Roger Casement, slavery, and sexual imperialism / Brian Lewis -- Sodomy, love, and slavery in colonial Brazil: a case study of Minas Gerais during the eighteenth century / Ronoldo Vainfas -- Eunuchs, power, and slavery in the early Islamic world / Salah Trabelsi --
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Legacies: discourse, dishonor, and labor: slaves, coolies, and garrison whores: a colonial discourse of "unfreedom" in the Dutch East Indies / Joost Coté -- Lure of the impure: sexuality, gender, and agency of "slave" girls in contemporary Madagascar / Sandra J.T.M. Evers -- Wages of womanhood: managers and women workers in the Jute Mill industry of Bengal, 1890-1940 / Subho Basu
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