This book views the Plantation Household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women.
Glymph challenges popular depictions of Plantation mistresses as ``friends`` and ``allies`` of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensibl.
Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved.
This book views the Plantation Household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women