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| Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Glymph, Thavolia, 1951- Out of the House of Bondage (OCoLC)1085906155 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thavolia Glymph |
| ISBN: | 9780521879019 0521879019 9780521703987 0521703980 |
| OCLC Number: | 128236460 |
| Description: | xiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Gender of Violence -- "Beyond the Limits of Decency": Women in Slavery -- Making "Better Girls": Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity -- "Nothing but Deception in Them": The War Within -- Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866 -- "Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free Homes -- "Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Wider World. |
| Responsibility: | Thavolia Glymph. |
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"The intellectually sophisticated and analytically acute Thavolia Glymph compels serious reconsideration of the transition in the relations of southern black and white women. Sensitive to the painful circumstances of both, she illuminates the political dimension of their daily interaction." -Eugene D. Genovese, author of Roll, Jordan, Roll and Mind of the Mater Class, with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Cambridge University Press, 2005 "Combining the tools of an economic and social historian with a flair for robust cross-examination of historical sources, Thavolia Glymph has fashioned a study of women in the plantation household into a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-slavery South." -Barbara J. Fields, Columbia University "Professor Glymph makes a powerful argument about relationships between black and white women in the slaveholding South. She explores the systematic, often brutal, use of violence by women of the planter elite against enslaved women and demolishes the idea that some form of gender solidarity trumped race and class in plantation households. This important book should find an appreciative audience among readers interested in African American, southern, women's, and Civil War-era history." -Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History, University of Virginia "...this book is a significant contribution to the history of women, African Americans, and the larger social and economic transformation of the mid-19th century. Highly recommended." -Choice "...Glymph has provided a new canvas for classic questions of enslavement, emancipation, and domestic spaces." -Jessica Millward, Journal of American History "...a provocative and very well-written analysis of gender in the South before and after the Civil War. Glymph's prose is incisively written and framed within a rich historiographical context." -Jim Downs, Civil War Book Review "Out of the House of Bondage presents a theoretically sophisticated, tightly argued challenge to the existing scholarship on black and white women in the nineteenth century South." -Frank Towers, Labour/Le Travail Read more...
