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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
PARTI
I.1 Ways of reading Incidents
PART II
II.1 Patriarchal sexual oppression
II.2 Resistance through self-determination in sexuality
II.3 Limitations of resistance against patriarchal sexual oppression
II.4 Oppression through the deprival of female identity by neglecting slave women to live OUT THE "VIRTUES OF WOMANHOOD"
II.5 Resistance by redefinition of self-determination through motherhood
II.6 Oppression through the destruction of relationships
II.7 Resistance by building strong relationships and communities
II.8 Resistance by calling for political action
II.9 Limitations of resistance against the deprival of identity and the destruction of RELATIONSHIPS
PART III: lACOBS'S OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE AS AN AUTHOR
III.1 Editorial oppression and Jacobs's resistance
III.2 Literary oppression and Jacobs's resistance
PART IV: LIMITATIONS OF RESISTANCE - HOW SUCCESSFUL IS lACOBS'S RESISTANCE?
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Janina Gaiser (Author), 2015, Gender specific forms of oppression and resistance in Harriet Jacobs´s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/415670
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