| Description |
viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
PART ONE : The rural world and the coming of the market economy: -- Dollars never fail to melt their hearts: native women and the market revolution / James Taylor Carson -- Made by the hands of Indians: Cherokee women and trade / Sarah H. Hill -- Producing dependence: women, work, and yeoman households in low-country South Carolina / Stephanie McCurry -- PART TWO : Wage-earning women in the urban South -- White woman, of middle age, would be preferred: children's nurses in the Old South / Stephanie Cole -- Spheres of influence: working white and black women in antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley -- Patient laborers: women at work in the formal economy of West(ern) Virginia / Barbara J. Howe -- PART THREE : Women as unacknowledged professionals -- Depraved and abandoned women: prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War / E. Susan Barber -- Female academy and beyond: three Mordecai sisters at work in the Old South / Emily Bingham and Penny Richards -- Peculiar professionals: the financial strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines / Emily Clark -- Faith and frugality in antebellum Baltimore: the economic credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- PART FOUR : Working women in the industrial South -- I can't get my bored on them old Lomes: female textile workers in the antebellum South / Bess Beatty -- To harden a lady's hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia / Michele Gillespie -- Invisible woman: female labor in the Upper South's iron and mining industries / Susanne Delfino. |
| Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Employment. |
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Women employees -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women employees. |
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Working class women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
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Working class women. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
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Gillespie, Michele.
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| Added Title |
Working women of the Old South |
| ISBN |
0807827355 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807854107 paperback alkaline paper |
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