Scarlett's Sisters
Subtitle: Young Women in the Old South
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780807831014
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Social history; Women's studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; USA; United States - Antebellum Era; United States - Civil War; Women's Studies - History; adolescence; Civil War; resistance; youth; girls; southern women; young women; Old South; womanhood; elite young women; boarding school; courtship; marriage; motherhood; rebellion; Gone with the Wind; New South; Lizzie Kimberly; Margaret Graham; Laura Wirt; Louisa Cabell; Ella Noland; Lizzie Scott; Loula Kendall Rogers; Martha Hunter Hitchcock; Sarah Morgan; patriarchy; white privilege; plantation; female friendship;; United States - State & Local - South; Women's Studies - General; 19th century; History; Sex role; Social conditions; Southern States; Young women
Description: "Scarlett's Sisters, the true story of the fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts, explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of a group poised to become their society's feminine ideal: young, elite, white women. Arguing that age is as important as class, race, and gender in historical analysis, Anya Jabour demonstrates that well-to-do white women coming of age in the Old South faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as women living independently of men."--BOOK JACKET.