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Restoring Miranda: gender and the limits of European patriarchy in the early modern Atlantic world*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2012

Susan D. Amussen  and
Allyson M. Poska
Susan D. Amussen
Affiliation:
University of California, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, 5200 North Lake Rd, Merced, CA 95343, USA E-mail: [email protected]
Allyson M. Poska
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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.

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Atlantic worldgenderimperialpatriarchysexuality
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Journal of Global History , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , November 2012 , pp. 342 - 363
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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The authors are grateful to Ann Little, Nancy Shoemaker, and Karin Wulf for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article, and to the participants in ‘Centering Families in the Atlantic World’ at the University of Texas Institute for Historical Research for their insights.

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