Masterful Women
Subtitle: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807855287
Subjects: Slavery & emancipation; Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology; Slaveholders; Social Science; Widows; USA; Southern States; Gender Studies; United States - State & Local - South; Women's Studies - General; History-United States - State & Local - South; Sex role; Social Science / Women's Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies; History; United States - 19th Century; Economic conditions; Social conditions
First sentence: In the early nineteenth-century Southeast, published and private texts advised that man's genius was to rule and woman's to yield.