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

• Autore: Faust Drew Gilpin
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7/15042; 973.7082
• Soggetto topico: Women - Confederate States of America - History
• Soggetto geografico: Confederate States of America History; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Mothers of invention
• ISBN: 979-88-908656-6-3; 0-8078-6616-4; 0-8078-6332-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780371003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.