The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements

• Main Author: Stevenson, Ana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Subjects: Social history.; United States-History.; Gender identity.; Sociolinguistics.; Ethnicity.; Social History.; US History.; Gender and Sexuality.; Language and Gender.; Ethnicity Studies.

This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women's rights movements, this book exam...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Women's Rights, Feminism, and the Politics of Analogy
• Part 1: Transatlantic Social Movements
• 2. "All Women are Born Slaves": Abolitionism and Women's Transatlantic Reform Networks
• 3. "Bought and Sold": Antislavery, Women's Rights, and Marriage
• Part II: Between Public and Private
• 4. "Tyrant Chains": Fashion, Anti-Fashion, and Dress Reform
• 5. "Degrading Servitude": Free Labor, Chattel Slavery, and the Politics of Domesticity
• Part III: Political Slavery and White Slavery
• 6. "Political Slaves": Suffrage, Anti-Suffrage, and Tyranny
• 7. "Slavery Redivivus": Free Love, Racial Uplift, and Remembering Chattel Slavery
• 8. "Lady Emancipators": Conclusion
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