Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South /

Show other versions (1)

"Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women--from the pre- to the post-Civil War South--within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Molloy, Marie S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slaveholders.
Single women.
HISTORY > Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Proprietaires d'esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes seules > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Slaveholders > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Single women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 1865-1877.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Southern States > History > 1865-1877.
Southern States > History > 1775-1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The construction of femininity in the antebellum South
  • Single women and the southern family
  • Work
  • Female friendship
  • Law, property, and the single woman.

Similar Items