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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Intersectionality and the Role of White Women: An Analysis of Divorce Petitions from Slavery
Contributor:
Feinstein, Rachel
Published:
Wiley, 2017
Published in:
Journal of Historical Sociology, 30 (2017) 3, Seite 545-560
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/johs.12125
ISSN:
0952-1909;
1467-6443
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractResearch on sexual violence and rape during slavery often focuses on the dynamic between white men and black women. However, white women played an important intermediate role in the sexual violence of enslaved black women. Analyzing divorce petitions submitted during slavery, the unique role of white women and their responses to sexual violence carried out by their husbands offer additional depth to the discussion of rape of enslaved black women. Furthermore, this analysis adds to intersectionality theory with the concept of a web of intersectional incentives, tactics, and consequences that encourage the maintenance of oppression.