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The reconstruction of White Southern womanhood, 1865-1895 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Censer, Jane Turner, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Sex role > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Upper class women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women, White > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > History > 1865-1877.
Electronic books.
Southern States > History > 1865-1951.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Changing visions of womanhood
  • Women and the new domesticity
  • "What will be my own": women and property ownership
  • Women and the old plantation
  • Women in public: schoolteachers and benevolent women
  • Becoming an author in the postwar South
  • Women writing about the North and South.