Negotiating boundaries of southern womanhood : dealing with the powers that be /
Annotation In a time when most Americans never questioned the premise that women should be subordinate to men, and in a place where only white men enjoyed fully the rights and privileges of citizenship, many women learned how to negotiate societal boundaries and to claim a share of power for themsel...
| Други автори: | Coryell, Janet L., 1955- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Columbia, MO :
University of Missouri Press,
℗♭2000.
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| Серия: |
Southern women.
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Negotiating boundaries of southern womanhood. |
Съдържание:
- "The extent of the law": free women of color in antebellum Memphis, Tennessee / Beverly Greene Bond
- "Our convent": the Oblate Sisters of Providence and Baltimore's antebellum Black community / Diane Batts Morrow
- "Her just dues": Civil War pensions of African American women in Virginia / Michelle A. Krowl
- Virginia women as public citizens: Emancipation Day celebrations and lost cause commemorations, 1863-1890 / Antoinette G. van Zelm
- Married women's property rights and the challenge to the patriarchal order: Colorado County, Texas / Angela Boswell
- Indispensable spinsters: maiden aunts in the elite families of Savannah and Charleston / Christine Jacobson Carter
- "The strongest ties that bind poor mortals together": slaveholding widows and family in the old southeast / Kirsten E. Wood
- The elite African American women of Orangeburg, South Carolina: class, work, and disunity / Kibibi Voloria Mack-Shelton
- Lost cause mythology in new South reform: gender, class, race, and the politics of patriotic citizenship in Georgia, 1890-1925 / Rebecca Montgomery
- Cartridge makers and Myrmidon Viragos: White working-class women in Confederate Richmond / E. Susan Barber
- "Their desire to visit the Southerners": Mary Greenhow Lee's visiting "Connexion" / Sheila Rae Phipps.