Citizenship from Below : Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom /

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This work starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. Newly free men and women were rebound into a racialized class order with acceptable and unacceptable forms of masculinity and fem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sheller, Mimi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sexual minorities
Women
Women > Social conditions.
Power (Social sciences)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Caraïbes (Region)
Minorites sexuelles > Caraïbes (Region) > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Caraïbes (Region) > Conditions sociales.
Power (Social sciences) > Caribbean Area.
Sexual minorities > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Women > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This work starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. Newly free men and women were rebound into a racialized class order with acceptable and unacceptable forms of masculinity and femininity. Sheller traces these histories of racialized and sexualized forms of freedom to the present.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (365 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822393825

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