The reconstruction of White Southern womanhood, 1865-1895 / Jane Turner Censer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Censer, Jane Turner, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.

Women, White--Southern States--History--19th century.

Upper class women--Southern States--History--19th century.

Sex role--Southern States--History--19th century.

Women--Southern States--History--19th century.

History.

Women.

Sex role.

Upper class women.

Women, White.

Social conditions.

Southern States--History--1865-.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2003]

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-297) and index.

ISBN:

0807129070

0807129216

OCLC:

51944311