Mothers of Invention
Subtitle: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780807855737
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Women's studies; United States - Civil War; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Women's Studies - History; Social Science / Women's Studies; meaning of womanhood; gender relations; Confederate popular culture; clash of the old and new social order; southern households; Women's Studies - General; Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; United States; Women
First sentence: As the nation passed anxiously through the long and uncertain months of the "secession winter" of 1861-62, Lucy Wood wrote from her home in Charlottesville, Virginia, to her fiance, Waddy Butler.