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Boardinghouse women : how southern keepers, cooks, nurses, widows, and runaways shaped modern America /

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Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South. Some als...

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Main Author:	Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D. (Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche), 1969- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Boardinghouses > Southern States > History > 19th century. Boardinghouses > Southern States > History > 20th century. Boardinghouses > Social aspects > Southern States. Women in the hospitality industry > Southern States. Women > Southern States > Social life and customs. Women > Southern States > Economic conditions. Women > Political activity > Southern States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. COOKING / History.

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