Gendered Strife and Confusion The Political Culture of Reconstruction

Name: Gendered Strife and Confusion The Political Culture of Reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780252066009

ISBN-10: 0252066006

ISBN-13: 9780252066009

Edition: 1997

Authors: Laura F. Edwards

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Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links post-Civil War transformations in private and public life. She illustrates how ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners--elite and poor, whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans--envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Laura F. Edwards is the Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University. Her book The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South was awarded the American Historical Association's 2009 Littleton–Griswold Prize for the best book in law and society and the Southern Historical Association's Charles Sydnor Prize for the best book in Southern history.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Disappearance of Henderson Cooper and Susan Daniel: Redrawing the Political Terrain of the Postemancipation South



You Can't Go Home Again: Marriage and Households



"How Can They Do It on Three Barrels of Corn a Year?": Labor



"Rich Men" and "Cheerful Wives": Gender Roles in Elite White Households



"I Am My Own Woman and Will Do as I Please": Gender Roles in Poor African-American and Common White Households



"Privilege" and "Protection": Civil and Political Rights



The "Best Men": Party Politics and the Collapse of the Knights of Labor


Notes


Bibliography


Index