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9%OFFKirsten Fischer - Suspect Relations - 9780801486791 - V9780801486791
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Suspect Relations

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Description for Suspect Relations Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; HBJK; HBLH; JFSJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.

Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by illicit sexual relationships and the sanctions imposed on those who conducted them. Fischer shows how the personal—and yet often very public—sexual lives of Native American, African American, and European American women and men contributed to the new racial order in this developing slave society.

Liaisons between European men and native women, among white and black servants, and between servants ... Read more

Fischer makes an innovative contribution to the history of race, class, and gender in early America by uncovering a detailed record of illicit sexual exchanges in colonial North Carolina and showing how acts of resistance to sexual rules complicated ideas about inherent racial difference.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486791
SKU
V9780801486791
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99-1

About Kirsten Fischer
Kirsten Fischer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.

Reviews for Suspect Relations
Beginning with a sketch of Anglican (English) ideas of race and sex in the seventeenth century and the ways that North Carolina women were perceived as disrupting society, Fischer subsequently discusses cross-cultural sex, regulation of sexuality (especially of servants), defamation suits, and violence (including rape).
Joan R. Gundersen
Journal of Southern History
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