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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust

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ISBN13: 9780807855737
ISBN10: 0807855731
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Publisher Comments:

When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. Faust chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Review:

"Faust makes a major contribution to both Civil War historiography and women's studies in this outstanding analysis.

(Publishers Weekly)"

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"It is one of the most admirable recent volumes of American social history.

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Synopsis:

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

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ISBN:
9780807855737
Subtitle:
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Author:
Faust, Drew Gilpin
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Subject:
United States - Civil War
Subject:
Women's Studies - History
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Subject:
meaning of womanhood; gender relations; Confederate popular culture; clash of the old and new social order; southern households
Subject:
Women's Studies
Copyright:
Series:
The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
Publication Date:
September 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
326
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.13 in
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