Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Notes
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: All the Relations of Life; 1. What Shall We Do?: Women Confront the Crisis; 2. A World of Femininity: Changed Households and Changing Lives; 3. Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery; 4. We Must Go to Work, Too; 5. We Little Knew: Husbands and Wives; 6. To Be an Old Maid: Single Women, Courtship, and Desire; 7. An Imaginary Life: Reading and Writing; 8. Though Thou Slay Us: Women and Religion; 9. To Relieve My Bottled Wrath: Confederate Women and Yankee Men; 10. If I Were Once Released: The Garb of Gender
11. Sick and Tired of This Horrid War: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-InterestEpilogue: We Shall Never...Be the Same; Afterword: The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered'; Notes; Bibliographic Note; Index
ISBN
9798890865663
9780807866160
0807866164
9780807863329
0807863327
OCLC
54357331
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