| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) |
| Series |
Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 3 |
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Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 3.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Women, Work, Family, and Law on the Frontier -- Ch. 2. To Find a New Husband: The End of Marriages on the Frontier -- Ch. 3. Settling Up: The Ascendance of Antebellum Society -- Ch. 4. The Law of the Master: Slave Women -- Ch. 5. Civil War -- Ch. 6. Long-Awaited Peace: Reconstructing Society -- App. A. Widows and Administration -- App. B. Divorces Filed and Granted by Gender and Era -- App. C. Grounds for Divorce by Gender and Era |
| Summary |
"Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her unique approach to exploring women's roles in a South that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public records for those years challenges the theory of men's and women's separate spheres of influence, as advanced by many scholars"--Amazon.com |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Rural women -- Texas -- Colorado County -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Rural conditions
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Rural women
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Ländlicher Raum
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Soziale Situation
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Frau
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| SUBJECT |
Colorado County (Tex.) -- Rural conditions
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| Subject |
Texas -- Colorado County
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Texas
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1585449296 |
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9781585449293 |
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