Scarlett's sisters : young women in the Old South / Anya Jabour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jabour, Anya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.

Young women.

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

Sex role.

History.

Social conditions.

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

Southern States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]

Summary:

"Scarlett's Sisters" explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned, and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.

Contents:

Introduction: Scarlett and her sisters : young women in the Old South

Young ladies : adolescence

College girls : school

Home girls : single life

Southern belles : courtship

Blushing brides : engagement

Dutiful wives : marriage

Devoted mothers : motherhood

Rebel ladies : war

Epilogue: Tomorrow is another day : new women in the new South.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-368) and index.

ISBN:

0807831018

9780807831014

OCLC:

71243969