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Her act and deed : women's lives in a rural southern county, 1837-1873 /
"Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 follows the threads of Southern women...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2001.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Sam Rayburn series on rural life ;
no. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Women, Work, Family, and Law on the Frontier
- Ch. 2. To Find a New Husband: The End of Marriages on the Frontier
- Ch. 3. Settling Up: The Ascendance of Antebellum Society
- Ch. 4. The Law of the Master: Slave Women
- Ch. 5. Civil War
- Ch. 6. Long-Awaited Peace: Reconstructing Society
- App. A. Widows and Administration
- App. B. Divorces Filed and Granted by Gender and Era
- App. C. Grounds for Divorce by Gender and Era.