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