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Title Gendered resistance : women, slavery, and the legacy of Margaret Garner / edited by Mary E. Frederickson, Delores M. Walters ; foreword by Darlene Clark Hine.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series New Black studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Re(dis)covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner -- Part I. Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Gendered Resistance / Delores M. Walters -- A Mother's Arithmetic : Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from Slavery to Freedom / Mary E. Frederickson -- Coerced but Not Subdued : Gendered Resistance of Women Escaping Slavery / Cheryl Janifer La Roche -- Secret Weapons : Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist Battlegrounds / Veta Tucker -- 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 / Kristine Yohe -- Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance? / Diana Williams -- Part II. Global Slavery, Healing, and New Visions in the Twenty-First Century -- Freedom Just Might Be Possible : Suraj Kali's Moment of Decision / Jolene Smith -- Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance : Experiences from Southern Yemen / Huda Seif -- Resurrecting Chica da Silva : Gender, Race, and Nation in Brazilian Popular Culture / Raquel L. de Souza -- The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence / Cathy McDaniels-Wilson -- Art and Memory : Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit : A conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi, Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, S. Pearl Sharp, and Catherine Roma.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).
Subject Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858 -- Influence.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History.
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History.
Sex crimes.
Slavery in literature.
Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women slaves -- Social conditions.
Women slaves -- Violence against.
Women slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Frederickson, Mary E.
Walters, Delores M.
ISBN 9780252037900 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9780252079429 (paper : acid-free paper)
9780252095160 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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