Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Genders and sexualities in history.
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Table of Contents:
- List of images
- Series preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: reading letters, telling stories, and writing history
- "Everything is so different here" : changing cultural landscapes
- An identity in transit : from "true woman" to "southern lady"
- Familial relations : north and south
- Articulating a southern self : georgia, sunnyside and the confederacy
- Reconstructing southern womanhood
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography.