Gendered strife & confusion
Subtitle: the political culture of Reconstruction
By: Laura Edwards.
Series: Women in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Other titles: Gendered strife and confusion
Description: Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links post-Civil War transformations in private and public life. She illustrates how ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners - elite and poor, white and black, Democrat and Republican - envisioned the public arena and their own places in it.

By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: You can't go home again : marriage and households; title: "How can they do it on three barrels of corn a year?" : labor; title: "Rich men" and "cheerful wives" : gender roles in elite white households; title: "I am my own woman and will do as I please" : gender roles in poor African-American and white households; title: "Privilege" and "protection" : civil and political rights; title: The "best men" : party politics and the collapse of the Knights of Labor.