Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1996 - 326 páginas
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the Avery Craven Prize
In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladi

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Chapter
9
Changed Households and Changing Lives
30
Chapter Three
53
We Must Go to Work Too
80
Husbands and Wives
114
Single Women Courtship and Desire
139
Reading and Writing
153
Women and Religion
179
Chapter Nine
196
The Garb of Gender
220
Chapter Eleven
234
Epilogue We Shall Never Be the Same
248
Bibliographic Note
309
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Drew Cilpin Faust is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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