{"product_id":"engendering-islands-9781496220240","title":"Engendering Islands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn seventeenth-century Antillesthe violence of dispossession and enslavement was mapped onto men’s and women’s bodies, bolstered by resignified tropes of gender, repurposed concepts of disability, and emerging racial discourses. As colonials and ecclesiastics developed local practices and institutions—particularly family formation and military force—they consolidated old notions into new categories that affected all social groups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eEngendering Islands\u003c\/i\u003e Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of race. In the face of historical silences, Williard’s close readings of archival and narrative texts revealsthe words, images, and perspectives that reflected and produced new ideas of human difference. Juridical, religious, and medical discourses expose the interdependence of multiple conditions—male and female, enslaved and free, Black \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEngendering Islands\u003c\/i\u003e is an original, compelling, and important exploration of how metropolitan ideas about gender influenced emerging notions of race in the little-studied seventeenth-century French Caribbean. Ashley Williard’s fine scholarship and keen insights make this book valuable for scholars in a wide variety of fields.”—Micah True, author of \u003ci\u003eMasters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ashley Williard’s careful reading of travelogues and other French texts within a rich engagement with wider scholarship reveals how colonial representations of violence and sexuality produced the racialized and gendered categories of savages, breeders, cloistered white femininity, pirates, and armed Black resistance.”—Sue Peabody, author of \u003ci\u003eMadeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Bodies and Archives in the Early French Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e 1. Evangelism between the Cultural and the Corporeal\u003cbr\u003e 2. Colonial Marriage and the Production of Cloistered White Femininity\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cannibals, Pirates, and the Authorization of Colonial Violence \u003cbr\u003e 4. Dishonoring and Debilitating Black Masculinity\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Memory and Forgetting in the French Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409230471511,"sku":"9781496220240","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496220240.jpg?v=1730506057","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/engendering-islands-9781496220240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}