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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)by Drew Gilpin Faust
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher 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.
Faust draws on the eloquent diaries, letters, essays, memoirs, fiction, and poetry of some 500 of the Confederacy's elite women to show that with the disintegration of slavery and the disappearance of prewar prosperity, every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. The prerogatives of whiteness and the protections of ladyhood began to dissolve as the Confederacy weakened and crumbled. Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences as wives, mothers, nurses, teachers, slave managers, authors, readers, and survivors, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once beneficiary and 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 Review:It is one of the most admirable recent volumes of American social history.
Booklist Review:"A dramatically revealing study of how the war altered these women's identities.
Josephine Humphreys, New York Times Book Review" Review:A wonderfully researched chronicle of a largely unexamined social elite that enriches the fields of Civil War and women's studies.
Kirkus Reviews Review:Among the finest of recent histories of American women.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, New York Review of Books 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.
Synopsis: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.
Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index. About the AuthorDrew Gilpin Faust is Lincoln Professor of History and Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her books include Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War and The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: All the Relations of Life Chapter One: What Shall We Do: Women Confront the Crisis Chapter Two: A World of Femininity: Changed Households and Changing Lives Chapter Three: Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery Chapter Four: We Must Go to Work, Too Chapter Five: We Knew Little: Husbands and Wives Chapter Six: To Be an Old Maid: Single Women, Courtship, and Desire Chapter Seven: An Imaginary Life: Reading and Writing Chapter Eight: Though Thou Slay Us: Women and Religion Chapter Nine: To Relieve My Bottled Wrath: Confederate Women and Yankee Men Chapter Ten: If I Were Once Released: The Garb of Gender Chapter Eleven: Sick and Tired of This Horrid War: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-Interest Epilogue: We Shall Never . . . Be the Same Afterword: The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered Notes Bibliographic Note Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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