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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ott, Victoria E., 1971-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Young women > Social conditions
Young women
Women
Teenage girls > Social conditions
Teenage girls
Social conditions.
Social aspects
Nationalism
Group identity
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Adolescentes > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Jeunes femmes > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Nationalisme > États confederes d'Amerique > Histoire.
Identite collective > États confederes d'Amerique > Histoire.
Adolescentes > États confederes d'Amerique > Conditions sociales.
Blanches > États confederes d'Amerique > Conditions sociales.
Jeunes femmes > États confederes d'Amerique > Conditions sociales.
Teenage girls > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Young women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > Confederate States of America > History.
Group identity > Confederate States of America > History.
Teenage girls > Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
Women, White > Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
Young women > Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
Women > United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > Confederate States of America
United States
Southern States
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780809387014

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