Out of the House of Bondage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521879019)

This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal.

Author: Thavolia Glymph
ISBN-10: 0521879019
ISBN-13: 9780521879019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2003
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2009