The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895,9780807129210

The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895

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ISBN13: 9780807129210
ISBN10: 0807129216
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

The important but little-known story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of self-reliance and independence between antebellum strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow.

Author Biography

Jane Turner Censer teaches history at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1(9)
Changing Visions of Womanhood
10(41)
Women and the New Domesticity
51(47)
``What Will Be My Own'': Women and Property Ownership
98(29)
Women and the Old Plantation
127(26)
Women in Public: Schoolteachers and Benevolent Women
153(54)
Becoming an Author in the Postwar South
207(36)
Women Writing about the North and South
243(32)
Epilogue 275(6)
Bibliography 281(18)
Index 299

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