Gendered strife & confusion : the political culture of Reconstruction /
Edwards, Laura F.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index.
You can't go home again : marriage and households -- "How can they do it on three barrels of corn a year?" : labor -- "Rich men" and "cheerful wives" : gender roles in elite white households -- "I am my own woman and will do as I please" : gender roles in poor African-American and white households -- "Privilege" and "protection" : civil and political rights -- The "best men" : party politics and the collapse of the Knights of Labor.
Women
Sex role
Reconstruction.