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1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) |
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PART ONE : The rural world and the coming of the market economy: -- Dollars never fail to melt their hearts: native women and the market revolution / James Taylor Carson -- Made by the hands of Indians: Cherokee women and trade / Sarah H. Hill -- Producing dependence: women, work, and yeoman households in low-country South Carolina / Stephanie McCurry -- PART TWO : Wage-earning women in the urban South -- White woman, of middle age, would be preferred: children's nurses in the Old South / Stephanie Cole -- Spheres of influence: working white and black women in antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley -- Patient laborers: women at work in the formal economy of West(ern) Virginia / Barbara J. Howe -- PART THREE : Women as unacknowledged professionals -- Depraved and abandoned women: prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War / E. Susan Barber -- Female academy and beyond: three Mordecai sisters at work in the Old South / Emily Bingham and Penny Richards -- Peculiar professionals: the financial strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines / Emily Clark -- Faith and frugality in antebellum Baltimore: the economic credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- PART FOUR : Working women in the industrial South -- I can't get my bored on them old Lomes: female textile workers in the antebellum South / Bess Beatty -- To harden a lady's hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia / Michele Gillespie -- Invisible woman: female labor in the Upper South's iron and mining industries / Susanne Delfino |
| Summary |
These 13 essays illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity and explore the 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references 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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| Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- Employment -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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Women employees -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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Working class women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Women
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Women employees
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Women -- Employment
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Working class women
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Arbeitswelt
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Werkende vrouwen.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Southern States
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USA
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Zuidelijke staten.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
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Gillespie, Michele.
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| ISBN |
0807861308 |
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9780807861301 |
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9780807827352 |
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0807827355 |
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9780807854105 |
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0807854107 |
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