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The YieldDiscover 'The Yield', a breathtaking poetry collection by award winning poet Sue Wootton. This hardcover book encapsulates 84 pages filled with deeply introspective, sensorially rich poems that reflect on the essence of human experience, exploring life's intricacies with vivid imagery and lyrical prowess. Dimensions measuring 160 x 235 mm make it a perfect addition to any bookshelf, appealing to both poetry lovers and literary enthusiasts. Wootton's
Discover 'The Yield', a breathtaking poetry collection by award-winning poet Sue Wootton. This hardcover book encapsulates 84 pages filled with deeply introspective, sensorially rich poems that reflect on the essence of human experience, exploring life's intricacies with vivid imagery and lyrical prowess. Dimensions measuring 160 x 235 mm make it a perfect addition to any bookshelf, appealing to both poetry lovers and literary enthusiasts. Wootton's work eloquently tackles themes such as the complex interplay between individual suffering and medical institutions, the urgent conversation surrounding environmental issues like the melting polar icecaps, and the profound rewards of solitude, creativity, and love. In 'The Yield', readers will find a tapestry of ideas woven with language that glimmers like the finest strands, showcasing the poet's remarkable linguistic dexterity and versatility. Join the journey of sowing, tending, and reaping through evocative verses that resonate deeply, offering a rich literary harvest to all who read. This unique collection is an essential for poetry collections and an excellent gift for those who appreciate the beauty of well-crafted language. Order now for prompt shipping within New Zealand; Smartfox NZ is committed to providing a smooth delivery experience, ensuring your new literary treasure arrives at your doorstep without any unexpected import charges or duties.CONDITION: Brand New
Dimensions: 160 x 235 mm
Pages: 84
Bind: paperback
Author: Sue Wootton Publisher: Otago University Press
The Yield is the vivid and lyrical new collection from award-winning poet Sue Wootton. These poems are sensorially alive, deeply attentive to language, the body, and the world around us.Down in the bone the word-strands glimmer and ascendoften disordered, often in dreams,bone-knowledge beating a path through the body to the throatlabouring to enter the alphabet.- 'Lingua Incognita'Wootton addresses subjects as various as the fraught relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energising power of solitudeand the rewarding demands of creativity and love.This is a collection about give and take, loss and gain; about sowing, tending and reaping.Sue Wootton brings her characteristic linguistic dexterity, exuberance and versatility to every page. The Yield is rich harvest.
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★★★★★ 5
Academic / Thought-Provoking
Format: Paperback
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a powerful, eye-opening work that challenges long-held assumptions about slavery and gender in American history. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers thoroughly dismantles the myth that white women were passive or marginal participants in the institution of slavery. Through meticulous research and extensive use of primary sources, including legal records, letters, and testimonies from formerly enslaved people—the book reveals that many white women were active, knowledgeable, and often brutal slave owners in their own right.
What makes this book especially compelling is how it centers the voices and experiences of enslaved people to expose the economic, legal, and physical power white women wielded. Jones-Rogers shows that white women not only benefited from slavery but also enforced it, defended it, and used it to build wealth and social status. The writing is clear, authoritative, and accessible, making complex historical arguments understandable without oversimplifying them.
This book is an essential read for anyone studying American history, slavery, race, or gender. It forces readers to confront uncomfortable truths and rethink narratives that have long softened or excused the role of white women in slavery. They Were Her Property is both academically rigorous and deeply impactful—a necessary contribution to honest historical understanding.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Remarkable analysis of slaveholding women in Antebellum America
Format: Paperback
Stephanie Jones-Rogers has provided us with a book that looks at the South's "peculiar institution" through a very different lens - the slaveholders/slaveowners, but this analysis looks at women that owned slaves, thus opening up a new avenue of study that I hadn't previously seen.
Jones-Rogers offers a well written account that is rich in historical details. She demonstrates through vivid historical evidence that the women that owned enslaved people were primarily driven by economic motives, and that these women were just as demanding and could be just as harsh as the "typical" slaveowner image that has been crafted over the years.
The book is organized thematically, and each chapter demonstrates the economic motivation behind slave ownership. The reader is offered views of everything from young children becoming slave owners when their parents "gifted" them an enslaved person, and how these young girls were taught that this was "property" that could be used as desired to how these female slaveholders would sell their slaves to meet their economic goals.
All told, this is a fascinating book that uncovers a long ignored slice of Antebellum American history that makes the historiographical literature of pre-Civil War history much richer.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2021
★★★★★ 5
Poignant, truthful look at women as powerful, business-savvy, yet brutal slave owners
Format: Paperback
Women slave owners were the norm in the South, not the exception. They increased in numbers, stature, and power while the men were off fighting the Civil War. Women often owned the slaves, not the men and knew how to sign prenuptial agreements back then to insure they kept all their property (including slaves) upon divorce or death of their spouse. They traded and bought and sold slaves with business savvy that most men envied. And they could be just as brutal towards their slaves. Ironically, it was the ownership of other people that empowered these women to not be bound to their husbands.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Good history, but not fun, engaging in popular literature.
Format: Paperback
The author is a very competent historian, and proves her points. She does so by stating each thesis and then reciting an exceedingly long string of supporting examples. Rinse and repeat. This is high quality, academic style history, but it’s not very engaging as popular literature. No one’s going to say “I couldn’t put it down.” That being said - I liked it! I learned a lot. Thanks.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Should be required
Format: Paperback
In my opinion, this book should be required reading in high school/college history classes. It’s so important to learn accurate history when it comes to slavery and this book does that. White women played a larger role than we are taught. Please give this a read!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2025