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Ar'n't I a Woman?
- Author
- Deborah Gray White
- Narrator
- Carmen Jewel Jones
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 16 September 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.
This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South—their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.
Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians.
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Details
- Author
- Deborah Gray White
- Narrator
- Carmen Jewel Jones
- Duration
- 7 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331970383
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Slavery and abolition of slavery, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Social and cultural history
Synopsis
"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." ―Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South—their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians.
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