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Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim On Themselves, Loucynda Elayne Sandeen
Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim On Themselves, Loucynda Elayne Sandeen
Dissertations and Theses
During the antebellum period of U.S. slavery (1830-1861), many people claimed ownership of the enslaved woman's body, both legally and figuratively. The assumption that they were merely property, however, belies the unstable, shifting truths about bodily ownership. This thesis inquires into the gendered specifics and ambiguities of the law, the body, and women under slavery. By examining the particular bodily regulation and exploitation of enslaved women, especially around their reproductive labor, I suggest that new operations of oppression and also of resistance come into focus.
The legal structure recognized enslaved women in the interest of owners, and this limitation was …
Rural Revolution: Documenting The Lesbian Land Communities Of Southern Oregon, Heather Jo Burmeister
Rural Revolution: Documenting The Lesbian Land Communities Of Southern Oregon, Heather Jo Burmeister
Dissertations and Theses
Out of the politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s emerged a migration to "the land" and communes, which popularly became known as the back-to-the-land movement. This migration occurred throughout the United States, as well as many other countries, and included clusters of land based communities in southern Oregon. Within these clusters, lesbian feminist women created lesbian separatist lands and communes. These women were well educated, and politically active in movements such as the New Left, Civil Rights, Women's Liberation, and Gay Liberation. These lands or communes functioned together as a community network that developed and commodified lesbian art, …