num_pages: 342
description: When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.
language: English
title: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
titlecomplete: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
genres: Gender, Civil War, Southern, Womens, Womens Studies, American History, American Civil War, War, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1140
series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies, The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Jefferson Davis Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press