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Consent in the presence of force : sexual violence and Black women's survival in antebellum New Orleans /
"In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated--even normalized--a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black wom...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated--even normalized--a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469670539 1469670534 9781469670522 1469670526 |