Engendering Whiteness: White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865

by Cecily Jones

Engendering whiteness represents a comparative analysis of the complex interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women's lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery. Despite their gendered subordination, their social location within the dominant white group afforded all white women a range of privileges. Hence, their whiteness, as much as their gender, shaped these women's social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719064333
• ISBN13: 9780719064333
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"