These true and dramatic stories of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women; one young and born a slave; the other old and from an illustrious planter family; show how each in her own way sought to exercise control over her life. The slave woman struggled to avoid an unwanted husband and the woman of privilege assumed a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. Sandra Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free; female and male; through these compact histories.
#1363404 in Books Cambridge University Press 2009-04-20Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.98 x .75 x 5.98l; 1.14 #File Name: 0521741343334 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Secularism and State Policies toward ReligionBy CustomerThis book is written by my Political Science professor and I like how he describes and explains secularist ideology. Very thorough but up to the point at the same time. I love it!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Does the job.By SofiNeeded this book for a class; pretty dry but did the job for my polisci class0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Its Secularism That MattersBy Michael GriswoldAhmet Kuru attempts to tackle a very complex question why certain states have state-religion policies that accommodate religion; while others have policies that create these parallel societies; a religious one and a secular one. Kuru uses historical analysis to detail three key cases: France; The United States; and Turkey. The three states in question were all founded by men of religious faith; yet they did not formally establish their religion as the absolute religion of the land. This commitment to secularism butts up against the quest for religious rights as enshrined in many states constitutions.Secularism itself according to Kuru is not an absolute condition; in some states it has some flexibility; while elsewhere it remains largely impenetrable. Kuru’s ideas make sense intuitively in the state-religious policies debate; but the analysis is largely based on the policies of the state towards religion in education policies. It would be interesting to see what would happen if the focus of the study was changed to another public policy arena; but the focus on education seems appropriate because of the high visibility of the issue in the three countries under study.
