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100 1 $aFaust, Drew Gilpin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81037154
245 10 $aMothers of invention :$bwomen of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War /$cDrew Gilpin Faust.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axvi, 326 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction. All the Relations of Life --$gCh. 1.$tWhat Shall We Do?: Women Confront the Crisis --$gCh. 2.$tA World of Femininity: Changed Households and Changing Lives --$gCh. 3.$tEnemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery --$gCh. 4.$tWe Must Go to Work, Too --$gCh. 5.$tWe Little Knew: Husbands and Wives --$gCh. 6.$tTo Be an Old Maid: Single Women, Courtship, and Desire --$gCh. 7.$tAn Imaginary Life: Reading and Writing --$gCh. 8.$tThough Thou Slay Us: Women and Religion --$gCh. 9.$tTo Relieve My Bottled Wrath: Confederate Women and Yankee Men --$gCh. 10.$tIf I Were Once Released: The Garb of Gender --$gCh. 11.$tSick and Tired of This Horrid War: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-Interest --$tEpilogue. We Shall Never . . . Be the Same --$tAfterword. The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered.
520 $aWhen Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business," they found themselves compelled to reconsider their most fundamental assumptions about their identities and about the larger meaning of womanhood.
520 8 $aDrew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis.
520 8 $aAccording to Faust, the most privileged of southern women experienced the destruction of war as both a social and a personal upheaval: the prerogatives of whiteness and the protections of ladyhood began to dissolve as the Confederacy weakened and crumbled.
520 8 $aFaust draws on the eloquent diaries, letters, essays, memoirs, fiction, and poetry of more than 500 of the Confederacy's elite women to show that with the disintegration of slavery and the disappearance of prewar prosperity, every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.
520 8 $aBut it was not just females who worried about the changing nature of gender relations in the wartime South; Confederate political discourse and popular culture - plays, novels, songs, and paintings - also negotiated the changed meanings of womanhood.
520 8 $aExploring elite Confederate women's wartime experiences as wives, mothers, nurses, teachers, slave managers, authors, readers, and survivors, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South. Mothers of Invention show how people managed both to change and not to change and how their personal transformations related to a larger world of society and politics.
520 8 $aBeautifully written and eminently readable, this study of women and war is a pathbreaking and definitive study of the forgotten half of the Confederacy's master class.
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651 0 $aConfederate States of America$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85030843
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