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Book SynopsisOver the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by...
Trade ReviewBeginning with a sketch of Anglican (English) ideas of race and sex in the seventeenth century and the ways that North Carolina women were perceived as disrupting society, Fischer subsequently discusses cross-cultural sex, regulation of sexuality (especially of servants), defamation suits, and violence (including rape).
-- Joan R. Gundersen * Journal of Southern History *
With this book, Kirsten Fischer joins scholars who have demonstrated the interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South.... Because she skillfully weaves together questions of class, race, gender, sexuality, and the social order, her book should be read by scholars of all related fields.
-- C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College * The Journal of American History *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Changing Conceptions of Race1. Disorderly Women and the Struggle for Authority2. Cross-Cultural Sex in Native North Carolina3. The Sexual Regulation of Servant Women and Subcultures of Resistance4. White Reputations "Blacken'd & Made Loose"5. Sexualized Violence and the Embodiment of RaceEpilogueNotesIndex
