This article argues that early modern literary and visual texts from Shakespeare's “Comedy of Errors” to Spenser's “Faerie Queene” repeatedly represent and render womanhood as a specifically and singularly white construction; in so doing, they establish the co-constitution of gender and race and their conscription by the contingencies of class. As this formation of white womanhood is in turn mobilized to underwrite the operations of violence and enslavement, white women themselves—and white womanhood as a politically and socially disciplined and disciplining category—emerge as not only the mediators but also the authors of these global and transhistorical processes.

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近代早期英格兰的奴隶制和白人女性身份

本文认为，从莎士比亚的“错误喜剧”到斯宾塞的“仙后”，早期现代文学和视觉文本反复将女性气质描绘成一种特殊而独特的白人结构；在这样做的过程中，他们建立了性别和种族的共同构成，以及阶级偶然性对他们的征召。随着这种白人女性的形成反过来被动员起来支持暴力和奴役的行动，白人女性本身——以及作为政治和社会纪律和纪律类别的白人女性——不仅作为调解人出现，而且成为这些全球和奴役行为的作者。跨历史过程。