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Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in… - Katherine Paugh
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192863924
ISBN-13
9780192863928
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21057247624
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Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Politics of Reproduction : Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Women's Studies
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Series
The Past and Present Book Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.6 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
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6 in
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"Katherine Paugh's The Politics of Reproduction is among the finest examples of Political History fully engaged with the analytics of race, gender, and power in the Atlantic world. By centring debates around the reproductive capacities of enslaved women in the British colonies during the age of abolition, Paugh offers crucial insight into the processes by which British politicians worked to capture the labour power of plantation economies and bolster their link to global capital. This is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the black Atlantic, of slavery and abolition, and of the reproductive lives of Afro-Caribbean women." -- Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University "One of the best books on slavery, medicine, and sexuality in a long time. Intellectual historians will appreciate Paugh's careful, nuanced, and detailed attention to the logics behind the "politics of reproduction", particularly to the ways she unpacks the medical, religious, and economic ideas that shaped the words of policy makers. Social historians will readily draw upon chapters which take on the microhistories of enslaved women as they were affected by, responded to, resisted, and moulded new reproductive regimes. Those concerned with ongoing debates regarding capitalism and slavery will find much to like in a history as attentive to material conditions as it is to discourse, one that makes abundantly clear the ways that Abolitionism worked "to harness and commodify the tangible, material, productive powers on Afro-Caribbean women's bodies to the tasks of capital"." -- Suman Seth, Cornell University "[A] Superb work of Atlantic history... Paugh successfully weaves together the social history of plantation life in Barbados and elsewhere with the political and intellectual history of the slavery debates in a way that few historians have managed... This is a major contribution to the study of slavery as practice, experience, and politics." -- Diana Paton, Slavery & Abolition, "Katherine Paugh's The Politics of Reproduction is among the finest examples of Political History fully engaged with the analytics of race, gender, and power in the Atlantic world. By centring debates around the reproductive capacities of enslaved women in the British colonies during the age of abolition, Paugh offers crucial insight into the processes by which British politicians worked to capture the labour power of plantation economies and bolster their link to global capital. This is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the black Atlantic, of slavery and abolition, and of the reproductive lives of Afro-Caribbean women." -- Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University"One of the best books on slavery, medicine, and sexuality in a long time. Intellectual historians will appreciate Paugh's careful, nuanced, and detailed attention to the logics behind the "politics of reproduction", particularly to the ways she unpacks the medical, religious, and economic ideas that shaped the words of policy makers. Social historians will readily draw upon chapters which take on the microhistories of enslaved women as they were affected by, responded to, resisted, and moulded new reproductive regimes. Those concerned with ongoing debates regarding capitalism and slavery will find much to like in a history as attentive to material conditions as it is to discourse, one that makes abundantly clear the ways that Abolitionism worked "to harness and commodify the tangible, material, productive powers on Afro-Caribbean women's bodies to the tasks of capital"." -- Suman Seth, Cornell University"[A] Superb work of Atlantic history... Paugh successfully weaves together the social history of plantation life in Barbados and elsewhere with the political and intellectual history of the slavery debates in a way that few historians have managed... This is a major contribution to the study of slavery as practice, experience, and politics." -- Diana Paton, Slavery & Abolition, The Politics of Reproduction is an interesting and multifaceted book, linking discussion of the parliamentary politics of the abolition debates with aspects of Caribbean social history ... This study therefore adds some valuable new perspectives to our understanding of the struggles over slavery and abolition in the British empire, but it is also certain to fuel ongoing debates about those struggles and their wider significance.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
305.409861/109033
Table Of Content
Introduction1. 'The Old Settlers Have Bred a Great Quantity of Slaves': Slavery, Reproduction, and Revolution, 1763-17972. The Curious Case of Mary Hylas: Wives, Slaves, and the Limits of British Abolitionism3. Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition: Slavery, Sexuality, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge4. A West Indian Midwife's Tale: The Politics of Childbirth on Newton Plantation5. 'An Increasing Capital in an Increasing Gang': Governing Reproduction, 1798-18386. Missionaries, Madams, and Mothers in BarbadosAfterwordBibliography
Synopsis
In the age of abolition, British politicians, slave owners, doctors, and missionaries were promoting motherhood among women working on Caribbean plantations, as a way to sustain the labor force in the absence of new African recruits. Paugh recounts the story of a Barbadian midwife to explore how this effort was experienced by Afro-Caribbean women., Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown labor force would end the need for the Atlantic slave trade. By establishing the ubiquity of visions of fertility and subsequent economic growth during this time, The Politics of Reproduction sheds fresh light on the oft-debated question of whether abolitionism was understood by contemporaries as economically beneficial to the plantation colonies. At the same time, Katherine Paugh makes novel assertions about the importance of Britain's Caribbean colonies in the emergence of population as a political problem. The need to manipulate the labor market on Caribbean plantations led to the creation of new governmental strategies for managing sex and childbearing, such as centralized nurseries, discouragement of extended breastfeeding, and financial incentives for childbearing, that have become commonplace in our modern world. While assessing the politics of reproduction in the British Empire and its Caribbean colonies in relationship to major political events such as the Haitian Revolution, the study also focuses in on the island of Barbados. The remarkable story of an enslaved midwife and her family illustrates how plantation management policies designed to promote fertility affected Afro-Caribbean women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Politics of Reproduction draws on a wide variety of sources, including debates in the British Parliament and the Barbados House of Assembly, the records of Barbadian plantations, tracts about plantation management published by doctors and plantation owners, and missionary records related to the island of Barbados.
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