Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-202) and index.
Contents
A geography of containment: the bondage of space and time. -- I could not stay there: women, men, and truancy. -- The intoxication of pleasurable amusement: secret parties and the politics of the body. -- Amalgamation prints stuck up in her cabin: print culture, the home, and the roots of resistance. -- To get closer to freedom: gender, movement, and freedom during the Civil War.