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Scarlett's sisters : young women in the Old South /

'Scarlett's Sisters' explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major tu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jabour, Anya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Scarlett and her sisters : young women in the Old South
  • Young ladies : adolescence
  • College girls : school
  • Home girls : single life
  • Southern belles : courtship
  • Blushing brides : engagement
  • Dutiful wives : marriage
  • Devoted mothers : motherhood
  • Rebel ladies : war
  • Epilogue: Tomorrow is another day : new women in the new South.