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Confederate daughters : coming of age during the Civil War /
Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. These young women clung tenaciously to the gender ideals that upheld marriage and motherhood as the fu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. These young women clung tenaciously to the gender ideals that upheld marriage and motherhood as the fulfillment of female duty and to the racial order of the slaveholding South, an institution that defined their status and afforded them material privileges. Author Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledgling nation, born out of a conserv. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435663565 143566356X 9780809387014 0809387018 1280697539 9781280697531 9786613674494 6613674494 |