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Contested Bodies – Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica: Early American Studies

Autor Sasha Turner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2019
Contested Bodies explores how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children. Examining the struggles for control over biological reproduction, Turner shows how central childbearing was to the organization of plantation work, the care of slaves, and the development of their culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812224603
ISBN-10: 0812224604
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Early American Studies


Cuprins

Introduction. Transforming Bodies
Chapter 1. Conceiving Moral and Industrious Subjects: Women, Children, and Abolition
Chapter 2. "The Best Ones Who Are Fit to Breed": The Quest for Biological Reproduction
Chapter 3. When Workers Become Mothers, Who Works? Motherhood, Labor, and Punishment
Chapter 4. "Buckra Doctor No Do You No Good": Struggles over Maternal Health Care
Chapter 5. "Dead Before the Ninth Day": Struggles over Neonatal Care
Chapter 6. Mothers Know Best? Maternal Authority and Children's Survival
Chapter 7. Raising Hardworking Adults: Labor, Punishment, and Slave Childhood
Conclusion. Transforming Slavery
Notes
Sources
Index
Acknowledgments


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