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Engendering Islands : Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean
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Title
Engendering Islands : Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean / Ashley M. Williard.
ISBN
9781496225474
9781496220240
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (330 pages).
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Summary
"Engendering Islands demonstrates how problematics of gender played a central role in defining colonial others, male and female, at the moment when slavery was first introduced in the French-controlled Antilles"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Women and gender in the early modern world
Contents
Introduction: bodies and archives in the early French Caribbean
Evangelism between the cultural and the corporeal
Colonial marriage and the production of cloistered white femininity
Cannibals, pirates, and the authorization of colonial violence
Dishonoring and debilitating Black masculinity
Conclusion: memory and forgetting in the French Atlantic.
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History
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