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

Name: Mothers of Invention Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780807855737

ISBN-10: 0807855731

ISBN-13: 9780807855737

Edition: 2004

Authors: Drew Gilpin Faust

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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.

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books include<i>Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War</i> and <i>The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.</i>



Introduction : all the relations of life



What shall we do? : women confront the crisis



A world of femininity : changed households and changing lives



Enemies in our households : Confederate women and slavery



We must go to work, too



We little knew : husbands and wives



To be an old maid : single women, courtship, and desire



An imaginary life : reading and writing



Though thou slay us : women and religion



To relieve my bottled wrath : Confederate women and Yankee men



If I were once released : the garb of gender



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