Restoring Miranda

Gender and the limits of European patriarchy in the early modern Atlantic world

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9306577
AutoresSusan D Amussen (0000-0002-3085-5830, University of California, Merced, autor de correspondencia), Allyson M Poska (0000-0001-8410-8614, University of Mary Washington)
Año2012
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas342-363
Fecha de publicación2012-10-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Global History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s174002281200023x
OpenAlexW2020317188
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas89

Atlantic history has become fashionable as a way of linking the histories of Europe and the Americas. However, much work in Atlantic history does little to challenge the national biases of traditional colonial and imperial history. This article argues that gender provides an important conceptual tool for a trans-imperial and comparative exploration, just as it provided important conceptual structures for all the peoples of the Atlantic world. An examination of the research on two gendered issues – work, and family and sexuality – demonstrates that while Europeans attempted to impose their ideas on the various societies that they encountered in Africa and the Americas, such attempts were rarely successful. Gender not only provides the basis for a trans-imperial analysis of the Atlantic world but also enables us to reorient our scholarly perspective in the Atlantic, highlighting the agency of non-European peoples and exposing the limits of European patriarchy

Agency (philosophy · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Atlantic World · Colonialism · Genealogy · Human sexuality · Patriarchy · Perspective (graphical · Social science · Sociology · World history · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History