Women, work, and family in the antebellum mountain South
By: Wilma A. Dunaway.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521886192
Subjects: Women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions; Poor women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History; Minority women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History; Women -- Employment -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History; Sex role -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History; Family policy -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: No gendered sisterhood : ethnic and religious conflict among Euroamerican women; title: Not a shared patriarchal space : imperialism, racism, and cultural persistence of indigenous Appalachian women; title: Not a shared sisterhood of subordination : racism, slavery, and resistance by Black Appalachian females; title: Not even sisters among their own kind : the centrality of class divisions among Appalachian women; title: The myth of male farming and women's agricultural labor; title: The myth of separate spheres and women's nonagricultural labor; title: Family as privilege : public regulation of non-patriarchal households; title: Motherhood as privilege : patriarchal intervention into women's reproductive labors.