Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (English and English Edition)
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Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (English and English Edition)
Book Details
- Author
- Wilma A. Dunaway
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- State & Local
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521886192
- ISBN-10
- 0521886198
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ISBN: 0521886198
Author: Dunaway, Wilma A.
Condition: New
This is the first study of 19th-century Appalachian women. Wilma A. Dunaway moves beyond the black-white dichotomy and the preoccupation with affluent females that handicap antebellum womens histories. By comparing white, American Indian, free black, and enslaved females, she argues that the nature of a womans work was determined by her race, ethnicity, and/or class positions. Concomitantly, the degree to which laws shielded her family from disruption depended upon her race, her class, and the degree to which she adhered to patriarchal conventions about work and cross-racial liaisons.
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