Southern Women Black and White in the Old South

Name: Southern Women Black and White in the Old South
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ISBN: 9780882959634

ISBN-10: 0882959638

ISBN-13: 9780882959634

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Sally G. McMillen, John Hope Franklin, Abraham S. Eisenstadt

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McMillen summarises the latest thinking about the lives of women in the South, both white and black, elite and ordinary. One of the best features of the book is the author's ability to weave the lives of all these women together in the same chapters. The excellent introduction is followed by four chapters on Family Life and Marriage, Reproduction and Childrearing, Social Concerns: Education and Religion, and Women at Work. McMillen points out that many myths still surround antebellum Southern women. They were much more complicated people than the women portrayed in many novels and histories. Of course, they cannot be lumped into one group as they differed according to time, region, race,…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.99" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Forward


Acknowledgments


INTRODUCTION: An Overview of the South and Southern Women



Family Life and Marriage


Family


Courtship and Marriage


Miscegenation and Sexuality


Marriage


Black Women and Marriage


White Women and Marriage


Laws and Marriage



Reproduction and Childrearing


Fertility


Pregnancy


Childbearing


Motherhood and Childrearing



Social Concerns: Education and Religion


Education


The School Experience


Education for the Less Privileged


White Women and Religion


Women’s Benevolence


Black Women and Religion



Women and Work


The Meaning of Southern Women’s Work


Slave Labor


Slave Protest


White Women and Work


Work on the Frontier


Paid Employment


Nontraditional Roles


Interracial and Class Relationships


Those Who Questioned Slavery



Southern Women and the Confederacy


Elite White Women


Slave and Free Black Women


Yeoman and Poor Farmwives


Coping Skills and Union Supporters


End of War


Conclusion


Bibliographical Essay


Index