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Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studiesPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [(c)1996.]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807863327
  • 9780807863329
  • 0807866164
  • 9780807866160
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E628
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Contents:
What shall we do?: women confront the crisis -- World of femininity: changed households and changing lives -- Enemies in our households: confederate women and slavery -- We must go to work, too -- We little knew: husbands and wives -- To be an old maid: single women, courtship, and desire -- Imaginary life: reading and writing -- Though thou slay us: women and religion.
To relieve my bottled wrath: Confederate women and Yankee men -- If I were once released: the garb of gender -- Sick and tired of this horrid war: patriotism, sacrifice, and self-interest.
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Awards:
  • Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1997.
Summary: This study offers an insight into the lives of the women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It describes how they had to direct farms and plantations, provide for families and supervise increasingly restive slaves.
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What shall we do?: women confront the crisis -- World of femininity: changed households and changing lives -- Enemies in our households: confederate women and slavery -- We must go to work, too -- We little knew: husbands and wives -- To be an old maid: single women, courtship, and desire -- Imaginary life: reading and writing -- Though thou slay us: women and religion.

To relieve my bottled wrath: Confederate women and Yankee men -- If I were once released: the garb of gender -- Sick and tired of this horrid war: patriotism, sacrifice, and self-interest.

This study offers an insight into the lives of the women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It describes how they had to direct farms and plantations, provide for families and supervise increasingly restive slaves.

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Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1997.

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