Neither lady nor slave : working women of the Old South /

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These 13 essays illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity and explore the lives of a wide range of women - nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants - in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Delfino, Susanna, 1949-, Gillespie, Michele
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Temas:
1800-1899
Women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women > Employment > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women employees > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Working class women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Femmes > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnel féminin > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women.
Women employees.
Women > Employment.
Working class women.
Arbeitswelt
Werkende vrouwen.
Sekseverschillen.
Southern States.
Zuidelijke staten.
USA.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART ONE : The rural world and the coming of the market economy:
  • Dollars never fail to melt their hearts: native women and the market revolution / James Taylor Carson
  • Made by the hands of Indians: Cherokee women and trade / Sarah H. Hill
  • Producing dependence: women, work, and yeoman households in low-country South Carolina / Stephanie McCurry
  • PART TWO : Wage-earning women in the urban South
  • White woman, of middle age, would be preferred: children's nurses in the Old South / Stephanie Cole
  • Spheres of influence: working white and black women in antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley
  • Patient laborers: women at work in the formal economy of West(ern) Virginia / Barbara J. Howe
  • PART THREE : Women as unacknowledged professionals
  • Depraved and abandoned women: prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War / E. Susan Barber
  • Female academy and beyond: three Mordecai sisters at work in the Old South / Emily Bingham and Penny Richards
  • Peculiar professionals: the financial strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines / Emily Clark
  • Faith and frugality in antebellum Baltimore: the economic credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow
  • PART FOUR : Working women in the industrial South
  • I can't get my bored on them old Lomes: female textile workers in the antebellum South / Bess Beatty
  • To harden a lady's hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia / Michele Gillespie
  • Invisible woman: female labor in the Upper South's iron and mining industries / Susanne Delfino.

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