Contents |
"Women are a huge natural calamity" : the roots of western gender ideology -- The first races in society : gendered roots of race formation -- Gendered racial institutions : world slavery and nationhood -- The American "body shop" : gendered racial formation in the colonies and new republic -- Enslaved bodies and gendered race -- Sexual projection and race : science, politics, and lust -- Defining, measuring, and ranking racial blood : the ungendered surface -- Hardly gender neutral -- Gendered anti-miscegenation : laws and their interpretation -- Preserving white racial blood : rape accusations and motherhood -- What is citizenship? : gender and race -- Engendering citizenship : dependency and sex -- "No can do" men and their others : dependency and inappropriate gender -- Mixed race, suspect gender : both white and-- whatever -- Implications for feminist theories of racial difference and antisubordination politics -- Gender implications for theories of racial formation. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 2008050663 |
ISBN | 9781438427539 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1438427530 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9781438427546 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1438427549 (pbk. : alk. paper) |