Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faust, Drew Gilpin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.

United States.

Women--Confederate States of America--History.

Confederate States of America--History.

Confederate States of America.

Physical Description:

xvi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1997.

Summary:

From hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs of the period, historian Drew Gilpin Faust reveals how war changed the lives of Southern women forever--from a housewife having to do physical labor for the first time to a Virginia aristocrat turned military nurse to a ruthless teenaged girl spy. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, and Winner of the Avery Craven Prize. 40 b&w photos throughout.

Contents:

All the relations of life

What shall we do: Women confront the crisis

A world of femininity: Changed households and changing lives

Enemies in our households: Confederate women and slavery

We must go to work, too

We little knew: Husbands and wives

To be an old maid: Single women, courtship and desire

An imaginary life: Reading and writing

Through thou slay us: Women and religion

To relieve my bottled wrath: Confederate women and Yankee men

If I were once released: The garb of gender

Sick and tired of this horrid war: Patriotism, sacrifice and self-interest

We shall never...be the same

The burden of Southern history reconsidered.

Notes:

Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0679781048

9780679781042

OCLC:

36520962

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