Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South /
"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...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The construction of femininity in the antebellum South
- Single women and the southern family
- Work
- Female friendship
- Law, property, and the single woman.