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100			_aJones, Cecily Forde
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245			_aMapping Racial Boundaries : Gender , Race , and Poor Relief in Barbadian Plantation Society
260			_c1998
260			_c1998
245			_dvol. 10 , no. 3
773			_0192984 _wu192984 _9317132 _tJournal of Women's History _gP. 9-32 vol. 10 , no. 3
245			_cCecily Forde-Jones
520			_aThis article explores problems the intersections of race, gender, and class created in the construction of the identities and material realities of white women in Barbados during the era of plantation slavery. Of the diverse racial groups that settled in the plantation societies, white women represent one of the most invisible and least analyzed. Their experiences have attracted minimal attention from Caribbean scholars, yet historical records reveal that white women played significant socioeconomic and political roles. As reproducers of the human state of freedom, their sexuality posed a potential threat to white dominance, and there is some evidence that their social and sexual autonomies were constrained and regulated. This article analyzes the dispensation of poor relief as a strategy the patriarchal white ruling class utilized to maintain the boundaries of "whiteness" by incorporating impoverished white women i
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970			_a51 _bMohamad Barham _c51 _dMohamad Barham