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Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War /
This study offers an insight into the lives of the women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It describes how they had to direct farms and plantations, provide for families and supervise increasingly restive slaves.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. What shall we do?: women confront the crisis
- ch. 2. World of femininity: changed households and changing lives
- ch. 3. Enemies in our households: confederate women and slavery
- ch. 4. We must go to work, too
- ch. 5. We little knew: husbands and wives
- ch. 6. To be an old maid: single women, courtship, and desire
- ch. 7. Imaginary life: reading and writing
- ch. 8. Though thou slay us: women and religion.
- ch. 9. To relieve my bottled wrath: Confederate women and Yankee men
- ch. ch. 10. If I were once released: the garb of gender
- ch. 11. Sick and tired of this horrid war: patriotism, sacrifice, and self-interest.