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Confederate daughters [electronic resource] : coming of age during the Civil War / Victoria E. Ott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ott, Victoria E., 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Young women.
- Women, White--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Women, White.
- Teenage girls--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Teenage girls.
- Group identity--Confederate States of America--History.
- Group identity.
- Nationalism--Confederate States of America--History.
- Nationalism.
- Young women--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Teenage girls--Southern States--History--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Confederate States of America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. These young women clung tenaciously to the gender ideals that upheld marriage and motherhood as the fulfillment of female duty and to the racial order of the slaveholding South, an institution that defined their status and afforded them material privileges. Author Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledgling nation, born out of a conserv
- Contents:
- Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Our Bright Youth""; 2. The Politicized Belle; 3. The Self-Sufficient Daughter; 4. The Perfect Woman; 5. The Confederate Belle Ideal; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69753-9
- 9786613674494
- 0-8093-8701-8
- 1-4356-6356-X
- OCLC:
- 856870162
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