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Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War
- Title
- Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.
- Author
- Faust, Drew Gilpin.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 96-404 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 96-5780 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IIR 98-1980 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 326 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
- Uniform Title
- Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.
- Contents
- ch. 1. What shall we do?: women confront the crisis -- ch. 2. World of femininity: changed households and changing lives -- ch. 3. Enemies in our households: confederate women and slavery -- ch. 4. We must go to work, too -- ch. 5. We little knew: husbands and wives -- ch. 6. To be an old maid: single women, courtship, and desire -- ch. 7. Imaginary life: reading and writing -- ch. 8. Though thou slay us: women and religion --
- ch. 9. To relieve my bottled wrath: Confederate women and Yankee men -- ch. ch. 10. If I were once released: the garb of gender -- ch. 11. Sick and tired of this horrid war: patriotism, sacrifice, and self-interest.
- Call Number
- JFE 96-5780.
- ISBN
- 0807822558 (alk. paper)
- 9780807822555 (alk. paper)
- 9780807855737 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 95008896
- OCLC
- 32432338
- Author
- Faust, Drew Gilpin.
- Title
- Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.
- Series
- Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 96-5780.Sc E 96-404.IIR 98-1980.