“An Object of Her Jealousy”: Gender Oppression in the Americas during the Early Eighteenth and Mid-Nineteenth Centuries
Abstract:
The history of gender oppression in the Americas during the early eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries has traditionally been understood through a binary lens in which cisgender white women, enslaved women, and queer individuals are viewed as passive figures. The purpose of this project is to highlight the dimensional role of these groups and to display that the experience of oppression is continuously changing over time due to race, gender, and sexuality intersecting with one another. Observing the experience of oppression through cisgender white women, enslaved women, and queer women will provide the necessary information to analyze oppression with the methodological approach of intersectionality, displaying how the experience of oppression is unique and changing for each group of individuals. The methodological approach of intersectionality will allow the history of oppression in the early eighteenth and mid- nineteenth centuries to be more dimensional and more accurately relayed.