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



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Titolo: Neither lady nor slave : working women of the Old South / / edited by Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
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.
Altri titoli varianti: Working women of the Old South
Titolo autorizzato: Neither lady nor slave  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908755-0-1
0-8078-6130-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816734303321
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