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Neither lady nor slave : working women of the Old South / edited by Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie

Delfino, Susanna, 1949- ; Gillespie, Michele, 1960-

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

Online Ressource (viii, 324 p.)

Englisch

PART ONE : The rural world and the coming of the market economy:Dollars never fail to melt their hearts: native women and the market revolution / James Taylor Carson

Made by the hands of Indians: Cherokee women and trade / Sarah H. Hill

Producing dependence: women, work, and yeoman households in low-country South Carolina / Stephanie McCurry

PART TWO : Wage-earning women in the urban SouthWhite woman, of middle age, would be preferred: children's nurses in the Old South / Stephanie Cole

Spheres of influence: working white and black women in antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley

Patient laborers: women at work in the formal economy of West(ern) Virginia / Barbara J. Howe

PART THREE : Women as unacknowledged professionalsDepraved and abandoned women: prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War / E. Susan Barber

Female academy and beyond: three Mordecai sisters at work in the Old South / Emily Bingham and Penny Richards

Peculiar professionals: the financial strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines / Emily Clark

Faith and frugality in antebellum Baltimore: the economic credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow

PART FOUR : Working women in the industrial SouthI can't get my bored on them old Lomes: female textile workers in the antebellum South / Bess Beatty

To harden a lady's hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia / Michele Gillespie

Invisible woman: female labor in the Upper South's iron and mining industries / Susanne Delfino.

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Neither lady nor slave

0-8078-6130-8 (electronic bk.); 978-0-8078-6130-1 ( : electronic bk.)

0-8078-2735-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-8078-5410-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

9780807827352

OCoLC: 53876495     

OCoLC: 53876495 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HQ1438.S63

305.4097509034 ; 305.4/0975/09034     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC028000 ; bisacsh: SOC 028000

LOC-SH: Women -- History -- 19th century -- Southern States ; Women -- Employment -- History -- 19th century -- Southern States ; Women employees -- History -- 19th century -- Southern States ; Working class women -- History -- 19th century -- Southern States -- Southern States ; Women employees -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Working class women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Women -- Employment -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Women -- Employment -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Women employees -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Working class women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century ; Electronic book

Electronic books / History ; Southern States ; USA ; Zuidelijke staten ; Working class women ; Werkende vrouwen ; Sekseverschillen ; Arbeitswelt ; Women ; Women employees ; Women ; Employment ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies

These 13 essays illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity and explore the lives of a wide range of women - nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants - in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South