Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress /

Born to a privileged middle-class family in 1830s New York State, Sarah Hicks' decision to marry Benjamin Williams, a physician and slaveholder from Greene County, North Carolina, in 1853, was met with slight amazement by her parents, siblings and friends, not least her brother-in-law, James Mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fraser, Rebecca J., 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
To 1918
Women > United States > History > 19th century.
Gender identity.
Gender Identity
Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Identité de genre.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Gender identity
Social conditions
Women
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1865-1918.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Images
  • Series Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories, and Writing History
  • 'Everything Is So Different Here': Changing Cultural Landscapes
  • An Identity in Transit: From 'True Woman' to 'Southern Lady'
  • Familial Relations: North and South
  • Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the
  • Confederacy
  • Reconstructing Southern Womanhood
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.

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