Gendered Resistance : Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252095160
- Garner, Margaret,-1834-1858-Influence
- Fugitive slaves-United States-History
- Government, Resistance to-United States-History
- Sex crimes
- Slavery in literature
- Enslaved persons-United States-Social conditions
- Enslaved women-Social conditions
- Enslaved women-Violence against
- Enslaved women-United States-Social conditions
- 306.3620973
- E443
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Re(dis)covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner -- PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDERED RESISTANCE -- 1. A Mother's Arithmetic: Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from Slavery to Freedom -- 2. Coerced but Not Subdued: The Gendered Resistance of Women Escaping Slavery -- 3. Secret Agents: Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist Battlegrounds -- 4. Enslaved Women's Resistance and Survival Strategies in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" and Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Garner -- 5. Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance? -- PART II: GLOBAL SLAVERY, HEALING, AND NEW VISIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- 6. "Freedom Just Might be Possible": Suraj Kali's Moment of Decision -- 7. Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance: Experiences from Southern Yemen -- 8. Resurrecting Chica da Silva: Gender, Race, and Nation in Brazilian Popular Culture -- 9. The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence -- 10. Art and Memory: Healing Body, Mind, Spirit: A conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, S. Pearl Sharp, and Catherine Roma -- Contributors -- Index.
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