Unruly women : the politics of social and sexual control in the old South /
Bynum, Victoria E.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
c1992.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-223) and index.
Race, class, and gender in three Piedmont counties -- White womanhood, black womanhood : ideals and realities in a Piedmont slaveholding society -- The limits of paternalism : property, divorce, and domestic relations -- Punishing deviant women : the state as patriarch -- The struggle to survive : the lives of slave, free black, and poor white women during the Civil War -- "The women is as bad as the men" : women's participation in the inner Civil War.
Women
Deviant behavior
Female offenders
Social control