Gendered Resistance Format: Paperback

Edited by Mary E. Frederickson and Delores M. Walters

ISBN 10: 0252079426 / ISBN 13: 9780252079429

Published by University of Chicago press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gendered Resistance Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252079426
• ISBN 13: 9780252079429
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter uses Garner's example--the real-life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved andthe opera Margaret Garner--as a thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States.

Contributors are Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, Mary E. Frederickson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Carolyn Mazloomi, Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, Catherine Roma, Huda Seif, S. Pearl Sharp, Raquel Luciana de Souza, Jolene Smith, Veta Tucker, Delores M. Walters, Diana Williams, and Kristine Yohe.

About the Author

Mary E. Frederickson is a professor of history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and a visiting professor in The Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University. Delores M. Walters is a cultural anthropologist who directs a Health Education Center at the University of Rhode Island.