Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South

ISBN-13: 9780521886192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 318 str.

Wilma A. Dunaway

Opis

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 women s histories. By comparing white, American Indian, free black, and enslaved females, she argues that the nature of a woman s 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."

Recenzje

"...a well-crafted study that will no doubt offer a starting point for many other scholars who wish to consider issues of gender within a specific region, especially the antebellum South." -Deborah L. Bauer, H-Women

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disjunctures among Appalachian Women: 1. No gendered sisterhood: ethnic and religious conflict among Euro-American women; 2. Not a shared patriarchal space: imperialism, racism, and cultural persistence of indigenous Appalachian women; 3. Not a shared sisterhood of subordination: racism, slavery, and resistance by black Appalachian females; 4. Not even sisters among their own kind: the centrality of class divisions among Appalachian women; Part II. Structural and Social Contradictions between Women's Productive and Reproductive Labors: 5. The myth of male farming and women's agricultural labor; 6. The myth of separate spheres and women's non-agricultural labor; 7. Family as privilege: public regulation of non-patriarchal households; 8. Motherhood as privilege: patriarchal intervention into women's reproductive labors.