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Faust Drew Gilpin |
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Titolo |
Mothers of invention [[electronic resource] ] : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / / Drew Gilpin Faust |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1996 |
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ISBN |
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0-8078-6616-4 |
0-8078-6332-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Confederate States of America - History |
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Confederate States of America History |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: All the Relations of Life; 1. What Shall We Do?: Women Confront the Crisis; 2. A World of Femininity: Changed Households and Changing Lives; 3. Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery; 4. We Must Go to Work, Too; 5. We Little Knew: Husbands and Wives; 6. To Be an Old Maid: Single Women, Courtship, and Desire; 7. An Imaginary Life: Reading and Writing; 8. Though Thou Slay Us: Women and Religion; 9. To Relieve My Bottled Wrath: Confederate Women and Yankee Men; 10. If I Were Once Released: The Garb of Gender |
11. Sick and Tired of This Horrid War: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-InterestEpilogue: We Shall Never...Be the Same; Afterword: The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered'; Notes; Bibliographic Note; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War |
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