. The female in "Middle Passage," as the apparently smaller physical mass, occupies"less room" in a directly translatable money econo
This connects to the idea of traditional family roles (the white man is the head of the household) and how the mother is the head of African American families according to the Moynihan report. Usually females as this sentence states, occupy "less room" such as in the economy women make less. In traditional families males are considered to be at the head of the household.