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Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No ...
ISBN
080784232X
EAN
9780807842324
Date of Publication
1988-12-31
Publication Name
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the ...
Artist
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
080784232X
ISBN-13
9780807842324
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038427557

Product Key Features

Book Title
Within the Plantation Household : Black and White Women of the Old South
Number of Pages
568 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Women's Studies, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1988
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Author
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Book Series
Gender and American Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

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1.3 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in

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LCCN
88-040139
Reviews
"Asks us to put aside simple generalizations and explore the complicated world that masters and slaves built together on their terms, not ours. . . . Fox-Genovese provides a rich analysis . . . without losing her critical eye or her amazing capacity for empathy. Like no other historian before or since." — Civil War Times, Virtually every sentence stimulates and every page challenges. . . . A vivid, extensive chonicle of Southern women's daily existence . _ Publisher's Weekly, An ambitious book . . . . Elizabeth Fox-Genovese elevates American women's history to a new level of sophistication.Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, An ambitious book . . . . Elizabeth Fox-Genovese elevates American women's history to a new level of sophistication. —Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, An ambitious book . . . . Elizabeth Fox-Genovese elevates American women's history to a new level of sophistication. --Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, Virtually every sentence stimulates and every page challenges. . . . A vivid, extensive chonicle of Southern women's daily existence . -- Publisher's Weekly, "Asks us to put aside simple generalizations and explore the complicated world that masters and slaves built together on their terms, not ours. . . . Fox-Genovese provides a rich analysis . . . without losing her critical eye or her amazing capacity for empathy. Like no other historian before or since." _ Civil War Times, Virtually every sentence stimulates and every page challenges. . . . A vivid, extensive chonicle of Southern women's daily existence . — Publisher's Weekly, "Asks us to put aside simple generalizations and explore the complicated world that masters and slaves built together on their terms, not ours. . . . Fox-Genovese provides a rich analysis . . . without losing her critical eye or her amazing capacity for empathy. Like no other historian before or since." —Civil War Times, Virtually every sentence stimulates and every page challenges. . . . A vivid, extensive chonicle of Southern women's daily existence .Publisher's Weekly, An ambitious book . . . . Elizabeth Fox-Genovese elevates American women's history to a new level of sophistication. _Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, "Asks us to put aside simple generalizations and explore the complicated world that masters and slaves built together on their terms, not ours. . . . Fox-Genovese provides a rich analysis . . . without losing her critical eye or her amazing capacity for empathy. Like no other historian before or since." -- Civil War Times
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
305.4/0975
Edition Description
New Edition
Table Of Content
1988 The University of North Carolina Press ISBN> 0-8078-1808-9 (cloth) ISBN 0-8078-4232-x (pbk.)--> Contents> Acknowledgments Prologue Chapter One Southern Women, Southern Households Chapter Two The View from the Big House Chapter Three Between Big House and Slave Community Chapter Four Gender Conventions Chapter Five The Imaginative Worlds of Slaveholding Women: Louisa Susanna McCord and Her Countrywomen Chapter Six Women Who Opposed Slavery Chapter Seven And Women Who Did Not Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations John Gayle as governor of Alabama, ca. 1835 / 19 Gayle House, Greensboro, Alabama / 20 Letter from Sarah Gayle to John Gayle, 19 May 1831 / 21 Sand Hills Plantation, Richland County, South Carolina / 122 Pond Bluff Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina / 124 Gippy Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina / 125 Retreat Plantation, St. Simon's Island, Georgia / 125 Anna Matilda Page King, 1870 / 126 Kitchen and smokehouse on the Pond Bluff Plantation / 168 Kitchen on the Bloomsbury Plantation, Camden, South Carolina / 169 Woman and child in rice field, Sapelo Island, Georgia / 170 Woman at work, Ben Hill County, Georgia / 171 Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, ca. 1830 / 217 Virginia Tunstall Clay, 1850s / 218 Octavia Walton LeVert, ca. 1840 / 220 Nancy Fort, ca. 1800 / 221 Bust of Louisa S. McCord / 264 McCord House, Columbia, South Carolina / 265 Caroline Georgia Wylly Couper, ca. 1830 / 266 Lucy Muse Walton Fletcher and the Reverend Patterson Fletcher, 1850s / 267 Women pounding rice, Sapelo Island, Georgia / 310 "Old Sarah," ca. 1840 / 311 Midwife in Glynn County, Georgia, ca. 1930 / 312 Mary Boykin Chesnut, ca. 1840 / 350 Lucy Muse Walton Fletcher, ca. 1870 / 351 Mulberry Plantation, near Camden, South Carolina / 352 Virginia Tunstall Clay-Clopton, 1860s / 353 Harriet Jacobs, ca. 1890 / 385 Letter from Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post, 23 May [n.d.] / 386
Synopsis
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing on research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women., Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women?s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources., Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.
LC Classification Number
HQ1438.A13F69 1988

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