Claiming the Pen

Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South

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• Catherine Kerrison

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• 288 Seiten
• 11 Lesestunden

• Geschichte

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The book explores how southern women utilized their racial superiority to assert new rights through writing, highlighting a complex interplay between gender and race. By denying education to enslaved individuals, these women not only claimed literacy as a privilege but also reinforced the oppressive systems of slavery, showcasing the troubling dynamics of power and privilege in the antebellum South.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Einband: Hardcover