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10%OFFDeborah Gray White - Ar'n't I a Woman? - 9780393314816 - V9780393314816
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Ar'n't I a Woman?

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Description for Ar'n't I a Woman? Paperback. "This is one of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field. Professor White has done justice to the complexity of her subject."-Anne Firor Scott, Duke University Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 209 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.

Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.

This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South—their heroic struggle to gain their ... Read more

Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393314816
SKU
V9780393314816
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Deborah Gray White
Deborah Gray White is the Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Ar’n’t I A Woman? and Too Heavy a Load, amongst other books.

Reviews for Ar'n't I a Woman?
"Told with human sympathy and professional skill…Ar'n't I a Woman? moves well beyond mere revisionism; it is as important as it is overdue."
James Oakes, author of Freedom National "This small but important book should be read by everyone interested in the subjects of freedom and equality. Which means most of us."
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