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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Contributor(s): Faust, Drew Gilpin (Author)

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 ISBN: 0807855731     ISBN-13: 9780807855737
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $35.63  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2004
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Annotation: Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 973.715
LCCN: 97006670
Lexile Measure: 1360(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" L (1.10 lbs) 326 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - South
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Civil War
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.


Contributor Bio(s): Faust, Drew Gilpin: - Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books includeSouthern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War and The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.
 
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