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Within the plantation household : Black and white women of the old South / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.
- Series:
- Gender and American Culture
- Gender & American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Southern States--History.
- African American women.
- Women, White--Southern States--History.
- Women, White.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life.
- Slavery--Southern States--History.
- Slavery.
- Southern States--Race relations--History.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 544 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Discusses how class, race, and gender shaped women's experiences in the South.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter One: Southern Women, Southern Households; Chapter Two: The View from the Big House; Chapter Three: Between Big House and Slave Community; Chapter Four: Gender Conventions; Chapter Five: The Imaginative Worlds of Slaveholding Women: Louisa Susanna McCord and Her Countrywomen; Chapter Six: Women Who Opposed Slavery; Chapter Seven: And Women Who Did Not; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890865724
- 9780807864227
- 0807864226
- OCLC:
- 823387918
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