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丕賱噩賳爻丕賱丌禺乇

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Women, Race & Class

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賲. said: " I鈥檓 still reading this book very slowly and giving myself time to be a lazy reader but i can鈥檛 stop myself from sharing some quotes that i can鈥檛 agree with more or find less rationally accurate

鈥渨hen it was profitable to exploit them as if they were I鈥檓 still reading this book very slowly and giving myself time to be a lazy reader but i can鈥檛 stop myself from sharing some quotes that i can鈥檛 agree with more or find less rationally accurate

鈥渨hen it was profitable to exploit them as if they were men, they were regarded, in effect, as genderless, but when they could be exploited, punished and repressed in ways suited only for women, they were locked into their exclusively female roles.鈥�

鈥渟he who was potentially the mother of ten, twelve, fourteen or more became a coveted treasure indeed. This did not mean, however, that as mothers, Black women enjoyed a more respected status than they enjoyed as workers. Ideological exaltation of motherhood鈥攁s popular as it was during the nineteenth century鈥攄id not extend to slaves. In fact, in the eyes of the slaveholders, slave women were not mothers at all; they were simply instruments guaranteeing the growth of the slave labor force. They were 鈥渂reeders鈥濃€攁nimals, whose monetary value could be precisely calculated in terms of their ability to multiply their numbers.鈥�

鈥淭he special abuses inflicted on women thus facilitated the ruthless economic exploitation of their labor. The demands of this exploitation caused slaveowners to cast aside their orthodox sexist attitudes except for purposes of repression. If Black women were hardly 鈥渨omen鈥� in the accepted sense, the slave system also discouraged male supremacy in Black men. Because husbands and wives, fathers and daughters were equally subjected to the slavemasters鈥� absolute authority, the promotion of male supremacy among the slaves might have prompted a dangerous rupture in the chain of command. Moreover, since Black women as workers could not be treated as the 鈥渨eaker sex鈥� or the 鈥渉ousewife,鈥� Black men could not be candidates for the figure of 鈥渇amily head鈥� and certainly not for 鈥渇amily provider.鈥� After all, men, women and children alike were all 鈥減roviders鈥� for the slaveholding class.鈥� ...more "

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