Liberating the Family? is a pioneering attempt to unite recent understanding of race and gender as historical and cultural constructs with extensive archival research. In so doing, Scully has produced a sensitive and intelligent study which bridges social and intellectual history and suggests new ways of understanding key categories of colonial history.
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Building on the lively resurgence of pre-industrial Cape history, Pamela Scully illuminates but occasionally contests other slavery research. - Deborah Gaitskell in THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Liberating the Family? is path-breaking; it is elegantly argued and written, and should be read by everyone interested in the histories of southern Africa. - Patricia van der Spuy in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY The author of this book is among recent innovative historians in combining the now characteristic analysis of cultural representations with a political economy analysis of the lives of her South African subjects. - Penelope Hetherington in AFSAAP Fresh insight ... - Margaret Snyder in CHOICE
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PAMELA SCULLY completed her graduate studies at the University of Michigan. Currently she is assistant professor of history at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. She has contributed to edited collections and her articles on rape, gender, and legal issues have appeared in The Journal of African History, The American Historical Review, and Canadian Journal of African Studies.
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