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UNINA9910780364403321 |
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Autore |
Fox-Genovese Elizabeth <1941-2007.> |
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Titolo |
Within the plantation household : Black and white women of the old South / / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
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Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 1988 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908657-2-4 |
0-8078-6422-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 544 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Gender & American culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African American women - Southern States - History |
Women, White - Southern States - History |
Plantation life - Southern States - History |
Slavery - Southern States - History |
Southern States Race relations History |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter One: Southern Women, Southern Households; Chapter Two: The View from the Big House; Chapter Three: Between Big House and Slave Community; Chapter Four: Gender Conventions; Chapter Five: The Imaginative Worlds of Slaveholding Women: Louisa Susanna McCord and Her Countrywomen; Chapter Six: Women Who Opposed Slavery; Chapter Seven: And Women Who Did Not; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Discusses how class, race, and gender shaped women's experiences in the South. |
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