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1	The Trauma of Chattel Slavery: A Womanist Perspective Women on Georgia in Early American Times Blasingame, Dionne 01 August 2012 (has links) This thesis explores the psycho-socio-cultural dynamics that surrounded black womanhood in antebellumGeorgia. The goal is twofold: first, to examine how slave narratives, testimonies, and interviews depicted the plight of enslaved black women through a womanist lens and second, to discover what political and socio-cultural constructions enabled the severe slave institution that was endemic toGeorgia. Womanist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and trauma theory are addressed in this study to focus on antebellum or pre-Civil WarGeorgia. Olaudah Equiano Harriet Jacobs Elizabeth Keckley Margaret Walker Alice Walker Fannie Kemble Georgia Black women Trauma Trauma theory Womanism Black womanism Africana womanism Exploitation Psychoanalytics
2	Fashioning the Domestic Ideology: Women and the Language of Fashion in the Works of Elizabeth Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Keckley Villafranca, Brooke 12 1900 (has links) Women authors in mid to late nineteenth century American society were unafraid to shed the old domestic ideology and set new examples for women outside of racial and gender spheres. This essay focuses on the ways in which Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Louisa May Alcott's Behind a Mask, and Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House represent the function of fashion and attire in literature. Each author encourages readers to examine dress in a way that defies the typical domestic ideology of nineteenth century America. I want my readers to understand the role of fashion in literature as I progress through each work and ultimately show how each female author and protagonist set a new example for womanhood through their fashion choices. Stoddard ideology Keckley domestic fashion Alcott Fashion in literature.

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The Trauma of Chattel Slavery: A Womanist Perspective Women on Georgia in Early American Times

Fashioning the Domestic Ideology: Women and the Language of Fashion in the Works of Elizabeth Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Keckley