The reconstruction of White Southern womanhood, 1865-1895

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Title:

The reconstruction of White Southern womanhood, 1865-1895

Author:

Censer, Jane Turner, 1951-

Personal Author:

Censer, Jane Turner, 1951-

Publication Information:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2003]

Physical Description:

xiii, 316 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Language:

English

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.

Subject Term:

Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Women, White -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.

Upper class women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.

Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.

Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

Southern States -- History -- 1865-

ISBN:

9780807129074

9780807129210

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