Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil WarUniv of North Carolina Press, 2000 M11 9 - 326 páginas When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. |
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... letter to President Eisenhower to say how illogical I thought this seemed in the face of the precepts of equality I had already imbibed by second grade . I confronted the paradox of being both a southerner and an American at an early ...
... letter to President Eisenhower to say how illogical I thought this seemed in the face of the precepts of equality I had already imbibed by second grade . I confronted the paradox of being both a southerner and an American at an early ...
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... letters , essays , memoirs , fiction , and poetry , have pro- vided this study with documentation of extraordinary range as well as rich- ness . Diaries written for the author's eyes alone , for her children , or for posterity must of ...
... letters , essays , memoirs , fiction , and poetry , have pro- vided this study with documentation of extraordinary range as well as rich- ness . Diaries written for the author's eyes alone , for her children , or for posterity must of ...
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... letters , and memoirs an extraordinary window into their experience and consciousness.3 Wars have frequently been seen as transformative of the status quo . But both the circumstances and the purposes of the Civil War made its impact ...
... letters , and memoirs an extraordinary window into their experience and consciousness.3 Wars have frequently been seen as transformative of the status quo . But both the circumstances and the purposes of the Civil War made its impact ...
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... letter of January 21 , her state's legislature had voted to call a seces- sion convention , and Wood thought disunion was " fast becoming the order of the day . " Yet these momentous events had already changed Lucy's life . Waddy Butler ...
... letter of January 21 , her state's legislature had voted to call a seces- sion convention , and Wood thought disunion was " fast becoming the order of the day . " Yet these momentous events had already changed Lucy's life . Waddy Butler ...
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... letter lay an incisive perception . Waddy Butler's new life as a soldier would ultimately not just deprive his future wife of “ hearing from you as often as I otherwise should , " but would divide the young couple as he marched off to ...
... letter lay an incisive perception . Waddy Butler's new life as a soldier would ultimately not just deprive his future wife of “ hearing from you as often as I otherwise should , " but would divide the young couple as he marched off to ...
Contenido
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Confederate Women and Slavery | 53 |
Chapter Four We Must Go to Work Too | 80 |
Husbands and Wives | 114 |
Single Women Courtship and Desire | 139 |
Reading and Writing | 153 |
Confederate Women and Yankee Men | 196 |
The Garb of Gender | 220 |
Patriotism Sacrifice and SelfInterest | 234 |
Epilogue We Shall Never Be the Same | 248 |
Afterword The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered | 255 |
Notes | 259 |
Bibliographic Note | 309 |
Index | 313 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
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