ISBN:
0807861308
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9780807861301
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 324 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Neither lady nor slave
DDC:
305.4097509034
Keywords:
Women History
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19th century
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Southern States
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Women Employment
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History
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19th century
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Southern States
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Women employees History
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19th century
;
Southern States
;
Working class women History
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19th century
;
Southern States
;
Southern States
;
Women employees History 19th century
;
Women History 19th century
;
Working class women History 19th century
;
Women Employment 19th century
;
History
;
Women Employment 19th century
;
History
;
Women employees History 19th century
;
Working class women History 19th century
;
Women History 19th century
;
Working class women
;
Werkende vrouwen
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Sekseverschillen
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Arbeitswelt
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Women
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Women employees
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Women ; Employment
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History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
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Southern States
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USA
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Zuidelijke staten
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Electronic book
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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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
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Made by the hands of Indians: Cherokee women and trade
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Producing dependence: women, work, and yeoman households in low-country South Carolina
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PART TWO : Wage-earning women in the urban SouthWhite woman, of middle age, would be preferred: children's nurses in the Old South
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Spheres of influence: working white and black women in antebellum Savannah
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Patient laborers: women at work in the formal economy of West(ern) Virginia
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PART THREE : Women as unacknowledged professionalsDepraved and abandoned women: prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War
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Female academy and beyond: three Mordecai sisters at work in the Old South
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Peculiar professionals: the financial strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines
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Faith and frugality in antebellum Baltimore: the economic credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence
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PART FOUR : Working women in the industrial SouthI can't get my bored on them old Lomes: female textile workers in the antebellum South
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To harden a lady's hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia
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Invisible woman: female labor in the Upper South's iron and mining industries
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