Sex, power, and slavery / / edited by Gwyn Campbell and Elizabeth Elbourne.
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 mas...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Athens : : Ohio University Press,, [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 646 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0821444905 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Gwyn Campbell and Elizabeth Elbourne. |