Caetana says no : women's stories from a Brazilian slave society / Sandra Lauderdale Graham.

Author
Lauderdale Graham, Sandra, 1943- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
xxii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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        Series
        New approaches to the Americas [More in this series]
        Summary note
        Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Counter Here are the true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each in her own way sought to have her way: the slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. But these women's stories cannot be told without also recalling how their decisions drew them ever more firmly into the orbits of the worldly and influential men who exercised power in their lives. These are stories with a twist: in this society of radically skewed power, Lauderdale Graham reveals that more choices existed for all sides than we first imagine. Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male.
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-177) and index.
        Contents
        • The First Story
        • Caetana Says No: Patriarchy Confounded 1
        • Settings 4
        • Workers 17
        • Family 26
        • Godparents 44
        • Captain Tolosa 49
        • Caetana 56
        • Annulment Denied 62
        • Luis Mariano de Tolosa's Household, 1830 75
        • Manuel da Cunha de Azeredo Coutinho Souza Chichorro's Household, 1835 80
        • The Second Story
        • Inacia Wills Her Way: Patriarchy Confirmed 83
        • The Making of the Will 85
        • Choosing Heirs 111
        • The Will Revealed 122
        • The Contract 134
        • Werneck's Sense of Order 142
        • Inacia's Will, 1857 159
        • Francisca's Will, 1849 165.
        ISBN
        • 0521815320 ((hardback))
        • 9780521815321 ((hardback))
        • 0521454867
        • 9780521454865
        • 0521455731 ((pbk.))
        • 9780521455732 ((pbk.))
        • 0521893534 ((pbk.))
        • 9780521893534 ((pbk.))
        LCCN
        2002067666
        OCLC
        49775401
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