Political theorist at Mount Allison University, previously JYU and UofT
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.socialGood day to revisit this lovely essay: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mary Jo MacDonald
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@cambup-polsci.cambridge.orgReposted by @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social -
Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism - https://cup.org/4AC2tGn
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@rgcs-mcgill.bsky.socialReposted by @maryjomacdonald.bsky.socialTwo major new articles from RGCS alum Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social BA '17, now Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Mount Allison University
“Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism." APSR
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@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social(2)This changes how we should understand feminists’ comparison of marriage to slavery. The analogy is usually read as a claim about domination. But the article argues that it was about commodification: not simply that women were ruled, but that they were treated as things to be bought and sold.
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.socialThe article makes two main claims. (1) Against the idea that early feminists were blind to the slave trade, I show how the first English feminists were actually inspired by it.
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.socialToday is all about shameless self-promotion because two (!) of my articles have been published 🎉
So excited to share that "Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and the Origins of English Feminism" is now out in APSR. It is open access so you can read it here:
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.socialIn our new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social , Geertje Bol and I turn to Tory feminists who use flattery between the sexes to challenge our assumptions about what flattery is, in what environments it flourishes, and the dangers it poses to politics. doi.org/10.1017/S153...
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.socialFlattery has long been seen as symptomatic of authoritarian politics. Yet even among those most keen to diagnose it in Trump's circles, the flattery from Natalie Harp was odd. This is because she defied the gendered dynamics of flattery—dynamics that have been ignored by political scientists.