| Description |
xi, 239 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Race, sex, and self-evident truths: the status of slave women during the era of the American Revolution / Jacqueline Jones -- Southern Indians and the cult of true womenhood / Theda Perdue -- Female slaves: sex roles and status in the antebellum plantation South / Deborah Gray White -- Women's perspective on the patriarchy in the 1850s / Anne Firor Scott -- Of Lily, Linda Brent, and Freud: a non-exceptionalist approach to race, class, and gender in the slave South / Nell Irvin Painter -- Radical reconstruction and the property rights of Southern women / Suzanne D. Lebsock -- Bloody terrain: freedwomen, sexuality, and violence during Reconstruction / Catherine Clinton -- Scarlett O'Hara: the Southern lady as a new woman / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Disorderly women: gender and labor militancy in the Appalachian South / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Black power: catalyst for feminism / Sara Evans. |
| Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History.
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Women. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
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| ISBN |
0822314835 acid-free paper |
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0822314967 paperback acid-free paper |
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