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Neither lady nor slave : working women of the Old South /

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.

Други автори: Delfino, Susanna, 1949-, Gillespie, Michele.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ℗♭2002.
Предмети:
1800-1899
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.
Women.
Women employees.
Working class women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women > Employment.
Werkende vrouwen.
Sekseverschillen.
Arbeitswelt.
SOUTHERN STATES.
Zuidelijke staten.
USA.
Electronic books.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Neither lady nor slave.
Съдържание:
  • 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.

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