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Her act and deed : women's lives in a rural southern county, 1837-1873 / Angela Boswell

Boswell, Angela,i1965- [Verfasser]

1st ed.

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2001

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 190 pages)

Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 3

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

1-58544-929-6 ; 978-1-58544-929-3 ; 1-58544-128-7

NW 8100

 

Texas  Frau  Ländlicher Raum  Soziale Situation  Geschichte 1837 - 1873 

"Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her unique approach to exploring women's roles in a South that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public records for those years challenges the theory of men's and women's separate spheres of influence, as advanced by many scholars"--Amazon.com.