ISBN:
9781119147732
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
Third edition.
Series Statement:
The American History Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4/0975
Keywords:
Women, Black Southern States
;
History
;
19th century
;
Women, White Southern States
;
Social conditions
;
19th century
;
Women, White Southern States
;
History
;
19th century
;
Women, Black Southern States
;
Social conditions
;
19th century
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Southern Women -- Contents -- Introduction: An Overview of the South and Southern Women -- Suggested Reading -- 1 Family Life, Sexuality, and Marriage -- Family -- Courtship -- Miscegenation and Sexuality -- Black Women and Marriage -- White Women and Marriage -- Laws, Marriage, and Divorce -- Suggested Reading -- 2 Reproduction and Child-rearing -- Fertility -- Pregnancy -- Childbearing -- Child-rearing -- Infant Feeding and Care -- Infant Health Problems -- Death and Mourning -- Outside Intervention in Childcare -- Suggested Reading -- 3 Social Concerns: Education and Religion -- Education -- The School Experience -- Education for the Less Privileged -- Black Women and Religion -- White Women and Religion -- Womens Benevolence -- Suggested Reading -- 4 Women and Work -- The Meaning of Southern Womens Work -- Slave and Free Black Labor -- Slave Punishment and Resistance -- White Women and Work -- Work on the Frontier -- Paid Employment -- Single Women and Non-Traditional Roles -- Interracial and Class Relationships -- Outsiders and Slavery -- Suggested Reading -- 5 Southern Women and the Confederacy -- Elite Womens Involvement on the Home Front -- Enslaved and Free Black Women -- Yeoman Wives and Poor Farmwives -- Work and Daily Life on the Home Front -- Changing Patterns on the Home Front -- Hardship and Death -- Coping Skills and Union Supporters -- End of War -- Suggested Reading -- Conclusion -- Index -- EULA.
