Neither lady nor slave [[electronic resource] ] : working women of the Old South / / edited by Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/0975/09034
• Soggetto topico: Women - Southern States - History - 19th century; Women - Employment - Southern States - History - 19th century; Women employees - Southern States - History - 19th century; Working class women - Southern States - History - 19th century
• Altri autori: DelfinoSusanna <1949-> GillespieMichele
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Savannah ; 6. 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 Sist
• Sommario/riassunto: These 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Neither lady nor slave
• ISBN: 979-88-908755-0-1; 0-8078-6130-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780366603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II