Abstract
Abstract
Chapter 6, “Slavery and Womanhood: ‘Assimilating woman to the slave is a mistake,’ ” distinguishes the aforementioned race/gender analogy from the slave/woman analogy (e.g., when Beauvoir portrays woman as enslaved by man, enslaved by domestic duties, and enslaved by the body’s reproductive functions for the species, as well as her use of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic as a theoretical framework for the subjugation of woman). It is argued that Beauvoir’s historical and metaphorical accounts of slavery do not adequately address racialized slavery. As a corrective, the chapter takes up examine critiques of her use of the slave/woman analogy while also taking seriously the lived experiences of enslaved Black women in the United States.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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