The reconstruction of White Southern womanhood, 1865-1895
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書誌事項
The reconstruction of White Southern womanhood, 1865-1895
Louisiana State University Press, c2003
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-297) and index
収録内容
- Changing visions of womanhood
- Women and the new domesticity
- "What will be my own": women and property ownership
- Women and the old plantation
- Women in public: schoolteachers and benevolent women
- Becoming an author in the postwar South
- Women writing about the North and South
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780807129074
内容説明
Researching the story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of independence between antebellum strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow, this study shows how they rethought and rebuilt themselves during a brief but important period of relative freedom.
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: pbk ISBN 9780807129210
内容説明
This impressively researched book tells 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. Profusely illustrated with the experiences of fascinating women in Virginia and North Carolina, it presents a compelling new chapter in the history of American women and of the South.
As were many ideas, notions of the ideal woman were in flux after the Civil War. While poverty added a harder edge to the search for a good marriage among some ""southern belles,"" other privileged white women forged identities that challenged the belle model altogether. Their private and public writings from the 1870s and 1880s suggest a widespread ethic of autonomy. Sometimes that meant increased domestic skills born of the new reality of fewer servants. But women also owned and transmitted property, worked for pay, and even pursued long-term careers. Many found a voice in a plethora of new voluntary organizations, and some southern women attained national celebrity in the literary world, creating strong and capable heroines and mirroring an evolving view toward northern society.
Yet even as elite southern women experimented with their roles, external forces and contradictions within their position were making their unprecedented attitudes and achievements socially untenable. During the 1890s, however, virulent racism and pressures to re-create a mythic South left these women caught between the revived image of the southern belle and the emerging emancipated woman. Just as the memoirs of southern white women have been key to understanding life during the Civil War, the writings of such women unlock the years of dramatic change that followed. Informed by myriad primary documents, Jane Turner Censer immerses us in the world of postwar southern women as they rethought and rebuilt themselves, their families, and their region during a brief but important period of relative freedom.
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