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Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South

Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South

Gillespie, Michele
Delfino, Susanna

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19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0807854107
ISBN13: 9780807854105
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Oct 28 2002
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.54 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women -- white, free black, and Indian.

Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity. Thirteen essays explore the working lives of a wide range of women -- nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants -- in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South. By highlighting contrasts between paid and unpaid, officially acknowledged and invisible work within the context of cultural attitudes regarding women's proper place in society, the book sheds new light on the ambiguities that marked relations between race, class, and gender in the modernizing South.

The contributors are E. Susan Barber, Bess Beatty, Emily Bingham, James Taylor Carson, Emily Clark, Stephanie Cole, Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, Sarah Hill, Barbara J. Howe, Timothy J. Lockley, Stephanie McCurry, Diane Batts Morrow, and Penny L. Richards.

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