03390nam 2200661 a 450 991081673430332120200520144314.0979-88-908755-0-10-8078-6130-8(CKB)111087027917596(EBL)413202(OCoLC)476236179(SSID)ssj0000209189(PQKBManifestationID)11189532(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209189(PQKBWorkID)10265440(PQKB)10181005(Au-PeEL)EBL413202(CaPaEBR)ebr10202604(CaONFJC)MIL929780(MiAaPQ)EBC413202(EXLCZ)9911108702791759620020301d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNeither lady nor slave working women of the Old South /edited by Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20021 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5410-7 0-8078-2735-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction; Notes; Part I. The Rural World and the Coming of the Market Economy; 1. Dollars Never Fail to Melt Their Hearts: Native Women and the Market Revolution; 2. Made by the Hands of Indians: Cherokee Women and Trade; 3. Producing Dependence: Women, Work, and Yeoman Households in Low-Country South Carolina; Part II. Wage-Earning Women in the Urban South; 4. A White Woman, of Middle Age, Would Be Preferred: Children's Nurses in the Old South; 5. Spheres of Influence: Working White and Black Women in Antebellum Savannah6. Patient Laborers: Women at Work in the Formal Economy of West(ern) VirginiaPart III. Women as Unacknowledged Professionals; 7. Depraved and Abandoned Women: Prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War; 8. The Female Academy and Beyond: Three Mordecai Sisters at Work in the Old South; 9. Peculiar Professionals: The Financial Strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines; 10. Faith and Frugality in Antebellum Baltimore: The Economic Credo of the Oblate SistThese 13 essays illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity and explore the lives of a wide range of women - nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants - in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South.Working women of the Old SouthWomenSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryWomenEmploymentSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryWomen employeesSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryWorking class womenSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryWomenHistoryWomenEmploymentHistoryWomen employeesHistoryWorking class womenHistory305.4/0975/09034Delfino Susanna1949-156611Gillespie Michele1639568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816734303321Neither lady nor slave4012528UNINA