Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

by Faust, Drew Gilpin

• ISBN13: 9780807822555
• ISBN10: 0807822558
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Summary

"I read with unanticipated fascination, spellbound by the gathered voices, their passion and stamina, their gifts of introspection and observation .... (Faust looks) directly at the past, with a daughter's hard, steady gaze, and with a daughter's generous heart". -- Josephine Humphreys, New York Times Book Review

Author Biography

Drew Cilpin Faust is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: All the Relations of Life

What Shall We Do: Women Confront the Crisis

A World of Femininity: Changed Households and Changing Lives

Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery

We Must Go to Work, Too

We Knew Little: Husbands and Wives

To Be an Old Maid: Single Women, Courtship, and Desire

An Imaginary Life: Reading and Writing

Though Thou Slay Us: Women and Religion

To Relieve My Bottled Wrath: Confederate Women and Yankee Men

If I Were Once Released: The Garb of Gender

Sick and Tired of This Horrid War: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-Interest Epilogue: We Shall Never . . . Be the Same

Afterword: The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered

Notes

Bibliographic

Note

Index

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