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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Mothers of Invention Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year — Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize — Winner of the Avery Craven Prize — 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 dur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807822555
ISBN-10: 0807822558
Publication Date: 3/4/1996
Pages: 326
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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