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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faust, Drew Gilpin.

Series:

Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.

Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Confederate States of America--History.

Women.

Confederate States of America--History.

Confederate States of America.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: All the Relations of Life; 1. What Shall We Do?: Women Confront the Crisis; 2. A World of Femininity: Changed Households and Changing Lives; 3. Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery; 4. We Must Go to Work, Too; 5. We Little Knew: Husbands and Wives; 6. To Be an Old Maid: Single Women, Courtship, and Desire; 7. An Imaginary Life: Reading and Writing; 8. Though Thou Slay Us: Women and Religion; 9. To Relieve My Bottled Wrath: Confederate Women and Yankee Men; 10. If I Were Once Released: The Garb of Gender

11. Sick and Tired of This Horrid War: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-InterestEpilogue: We Shall Never...Be the Same; Afterword: The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered'; Notes; Bibliographic Note; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.

ISBN:

9798890865663

9780807866160

0807866164

9780807863329

0807863327

OCLC:

54357331