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Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War /
When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business", t...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction:
- All the relations of life
- ch. 1.
- What shall we do? : women confront the crisis
- ch. 2.
- World of femininity : changed households and changing lives
- ch. 3.
- Enemies in our households : confederate women and slavery
- ch. 4.
- We must go to work, too
- ch. 5.
- We little knew : husbands and wives
- ch. 6.
- To be an old maid : single women, courtship, and desire
- ch. 7.
- Imaginary life : reading and writing
- ch. 8.
- Though thou slay us : women and religion
- ch. 9.
- To relieve my bottled wrath : Confederate women and Yankee men
- ch. 10.
- If I were once released : the garb of gender
- ch. 11.
- 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.