Civil Wars
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Civil Wars

Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism

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eBook - ePub

Civil Wars

Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism

About this book

Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's complex social order and how Southern social assumptions shaped their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and society as a whole. He reveals a bafflingly intricate social order and the ways the South's surprisingly diverse women shaped their own lives and minds despite strict boundaries. Paying particular attention to women during the Civil War, Roble illuminates their thoughts on the conflict and the threats and challenges they faced and looks at their place in both the economy and politics of the Confederacy. He also ranges back to the antebellum era and forward to postwar South, when women quickly acquiesced to the old patriarchal system but nonetheless lived lives changed forever by the war.

Winner of the 1989 Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy, 1989.  Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize of the Southern Association of Women Historians, 1991.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1 Tradition, Change, and Uneasy Accommodation
  10. Chapter 2 Defenders of the Faith
  11. Chapter 3 The Civil War as Family Crisis
  12. Chapter 4 Southern Women and Confederate Military Power
  13. Chapter 5 The Political Economy of the Southern Home Front
  14. Chapter 6 The New Women of the Confederacy
  15. Chapter 7 Duty, Honor, and Frustration: The Dilemmas of Female Patriotism
  16. Chapter 8 The Coming of Lucifer’s Legions
  17. Chapter 9 Refugees and Revelers
  18. Chapter 10 From Exaltation to Despair
  19. Chapter 11 Defeat
  20. Chapter 12 Reconstructing the Domestic Economy
  21. Chapter 13 The Janus-Faced Women of the New South
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography of Manuscript Collections
  24. Index