Title: Gendered strife & confusion
Subtitle: the political culture of Reconstruction
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.
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Women, Sex role, History, Women, united states, history, Reconstruction
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 19th century