• Acknowledgements; Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts; 1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; 2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; 4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; 5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; 6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey; 7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'; Bibliography; Index.

"This elegant, innovative book fulfills and extends the promise of early modern race studies of the past decade." Renaissance Quarterly

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts; 1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; 2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; 4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; 5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; 6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey; 7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'; Bibliography; Index.

"This elegant, innovative book fulfills and extends the promise of early modern race studies of the past decade." Renaissance Quarterly

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts; 1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; 2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; 4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; 5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; 6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey; 7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'; Bibliography; Index.

"This elegant, innovative book fulfills and extends the promise of early modern race studies of the past decade." Renaissance Quarterly