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Engendering islands : sexuality, reproduction, and violence in the early French Caribbean /

"Engendering Islands demonstrates how problematics of gender played a central role in defining colonial others, male and female, at the moment when slavery was first introduced in the French-controlled Antilles"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williard, Ashley M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: bodies and archives in the early French Caribbean
  • Evangelism between the cultural and the corporeal
  • Colonial marriage and the production of cloistered white femininity
  • Cannibals, pirates, and the authorization of colonial violence
  • Dishonoring and debilitating Black masculinity
  • Conclusion: memory and forgetting in the French Atlantic.