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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Molloy, Marie S. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
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.