Gendered strife & confusion : the political culture of reconstruction
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Gendered strife & confusion : the political culture of reconstruction
（Women in American history）
University of Illinois Press, c1997
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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
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Description
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. 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 long beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.
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