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