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Within the plantation household : Black and White women of the Old South / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
Van Pelt Library HQ1438.A13 F69 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture
- Gender & American culture.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africam American women--Southern States--History.
- Africam American women.
- Women, White--Southern States--History.
- Women, White.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life.
- History.
- Race relations.
- Enslaved persons.
- Southern States.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--History.
- Southern States--History--Race relations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 544 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Southern Women, Southern Households
- The View from the Big House
- Between Big House and Slave Community
- Gender Conventions
- The Imaginative Worlds of Slavehold. Women: Louisa Susanna McCord and Her Countrywomen
- Women Who Opposed Slavery
- And Women Who Did Not
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-529) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0807818089
- 080784232X
- OCLC:
- 17841331
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