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The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24467-5

ISBN: 978-3-030-24466-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 4, 2020

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Chapter 1Women’s Rights, Feminism, and the Politics of Analogy

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 1 –20

[Across the centuries, countless philosophers, political theorists, social reformers, legislators, and cultural commentators have contemplated an analogy between woman and slave. This chapter considers the politics of analogy in feminist thought, from its denunciation by most feminist scholars as...
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“All Women are Born Slaves”: Antislavery, Women’s Rights, and Transatlantic Reform Networks

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 23 –68

[This chapter analyzes the transatlantic contestations that shaped the meaning and implications of the woman-slave analogy. Abolitionist women began to embrace this rhetoric during the 1830s to describe what they perceived as a similarity in status as much as to highlight the hypocrisy of...
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“Bought and Sold”: Antislavery, Women’s Rights, and Marriage

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 69 –114

[Prior to the nineteenth century, the analogy between marriage and chattel slavery found expression in contract theory, reform discourse, and proslavery thought. This chapter illustrates the competing analyses such perspectives could generate by contextualizing the perspectives of black and white...
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“Tyrant Chains”: Fashion, Antifashion, and Dress Reform

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 117 –157

[This chapter examines how cultural commentators and reformers embraced the woman-slave analogy to criticize fashionable dress and advocate for dress reform. Many appreciated the degree to which clothing, from fashionable and Quaker dress to the clothing of enslaved people, could either bestow...
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“Degrading Servitude”: Free Labor, Chattel Slavery, and the Politics of Domesticity

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 159 –204

[This chapter considers the many and competing ways in which women reformers embraced the woman-slave analogy to illuminate the many facets of women’s work, both within and beyond the home. Women labor reformers used this rhetoric to highlight the exploitation of wage-earning women. Some working...
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“Political Slaves”: Suffrage, Anti-suffrage, and Tyranny

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 207 –256

[Across the antebellum era, some women’s rights reformers began to embrace the woman-slave analogy in an increasingly literal manner. In the context of the debates about citizenship and universal suffrage during the 1860s, this chapter examines the process whereby suffragists continued to...
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“Slavery Redivivus”: Free Love, Racial Uplift, and Remembering Chattel Slavery

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 257 –300

[This chapter analyzes the rhetorical transformation that took place across the nineteenth century. A belief that slavery had been “reborn” (redivivus) following the Civil War came to dominate among white reformers, especially free love advocates, who newly and routinely situated women’s...
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“Lady Emancipators”: Conclusion

Stevenson, Ana

Pages: 301 –310

[Historically, different analytic frameworks have been used to understand and theorize the connections between oppression derived from gender, race, and class. The contestations that arose from the use of analogy, this chapter concludes, rather than the analysis borne of the woman-slave analogy...

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