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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455936003321

Autore

Faust Drew Gilpin

Titolo

Mothers of invention [[electronic resource] ] : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / / Drew Gilpin Faust

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8078-6616-4

0-8078-6332-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Disciplina

973.7/15042

973.7082

Soggetti

Women - Confederate States of America - History

Electronic books.

Confederate States of America History

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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