ISBN:
1585449296
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9781585449293
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 190 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Sam Rayburn series on rural life no. 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Her act and deed
DDC:
305.4209764253091734
Keywords:
Rural women History
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19th century
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Texas
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Colorado County
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Rural women History 19th century
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Rural women History 19th century
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Ländlicher Raum
;
Soziale Situation
;
Frau
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Gender Studies & Sexuality
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Gender & Ethnic Studies
;
Social Sciences
;
Rural conditions
;
Rural women
;
History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Colorado County (Tex.) Rural conditions
;
Texas
;
Colorado County
;
Texas
;
Colorado County (Tex.) Rural conditions
;
Colorado County (Tex.) Rural conditions
;
Texas
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Texas ; Colorado County
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
"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
Abstract:
Ch. 1.Women, Work, Family, and Law on the Frontier --Ch. 2.To Find a New Husband: The End of Marriages on the Frontier --Ch. 3.Settling Up: The Ascendance of Antebellum Society --Ch. 4.The Law of the Master: Slave Women --Ch. 5.Civil War --Ch. 6.Long-Awaited Peace: Reconstructing Society --App. A.Widows and Administration --App. B.Divorces Filed and Granted by Gender and Era --App. C.Grounds for Divorce by Gender and Era.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index. - Description based on print version record
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