Half Sisters of History

Southern Women and the American Past
Herausgeber: Clinton, Catherine

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Produktbeschreibung

Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline. A comprehensive and much-needed tribute to southern women’s history, Half Sisters of History brings together the most important work in this field over the past twenty years. This collection of essays by pioneering scholars surveys the roots and development of southern women’s history and examines the roles of white women and women of color across the boundaries of class and social status from the founding of the nation to the present. Authors including Anne Firor Scott, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, and Nell Irwin Painter, among others, analyze women’s participation in prewar slavery, their representation in popular fiction, and their involvement in social movements. In no way restricted to views of the plantation South, other essays examine the role of women during the American Revolution, the social status of Native American women, the involvement of Appalachian women in labor struggles, and the significance of women in the battle for civil rights. Because of their indelible impact on gender relations, issues of class, race, and sexuality figure centrally in these analyses. Half Sisters of History will be important not only to women’s historians, but also to southern historians and women’s studies scholars. It will prove invaluable to anyone in search of a full understanding of the history of women, the South, or the nation itself. Contributors. Catherine Clinton, Sara Evans, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Jacqueline Jones, Suzanne D. Lebsock, Nell Irwin Painter, Theda Perdue, Anne Firor Scott, Deborah Gray White

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 1994
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822314837
• ISBN-10: 0822314835
• Artikelnr.: 34758279

Autorenporträt

Catherine Clinton

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction / Catherine Clinton
Race, Sex, and Self-Evident Truths: The Status of Slave Women during the
Era of the American Revolution / Jacqueline Jones
Southern Indians and the Cult of True Womanhood / Theda Perdue
Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South /
Deborah Gray White
Women's Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850s / Anne Firor Scott
Of Lily, Linda Brent, and Freud: A Non-Exceptionalist Approach to Race,
Class, and Gender in the Slave South / Nell Irvin Painter
Radical Reconstruction and the Property Rights of Southern Women / Suzanne
D. Lebsock
Bloody Terrain: Freedwomen, Sexuality, and Violence during Reconstruction /
Catherine Clinton
Scarlett O'Hara: The Southern Lady as New Woman / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South /
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Black Power: Catalyst for Feminism / Sara Evans