Reconstructing the Black Woman

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Sheila H

 

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January 30, 2014

 

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This is the result of the "peculiar institute" of slavery in regards to the relationship between the white master and the black female slave. The four principles of a virtuous woman were formed to define womanhood, to compliment the male role, and to constrict women's freedom to dependency on the complimentary male function (Carby 3-20)...
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Carby states in Reconstruction of Womanhood , "Black women had to confront the dominant ideologies and literary conventions of womanhood which excluded them from the definition "woman" (Carby 6). Slaves were classified as less than human, thus females slaves undoubtedly did not receive the title of "true woman"...
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