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Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Mothers of Invention Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladies," models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social upheaval of the Civil War, when they found themselves suddenly assuming unaccustomed r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679781042
ISBN-10: 0679781048
Publication Date: 9/30/1997
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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This book gives a good overview of women's lives in the South during the Civil War. The author makes extensive use of diaries and letters of women in all social classes to show the affects of the war on women's lives. A must read for anyone interested in women's lives during the Civil War.


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