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020 $a0801853060 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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245 00 $aOur common affairs :$btexts from women in the Old South /$cedited by Joan E. Cashin.
260 $aBaltimore, MD :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1996.
263 $a9609
300 $ax, 309 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aWe still know little about the experiences of white women in the antebellum South, and for many years students of the period have waited for a broadly based sampling of their writings. In Our Common Affairs, supplying this need, Joan E. Cashin has assembled 128 documents that explore the lives of these women in their own words. She has selected excerpts from letters, diaries, wills, recipe books, and advice literature - most previously unpublished - and drawn from sources in every Southern state.
520 8 $aHer subjects include the wives of planters, merchants, professionals, artisans, and yeoman farmers.
520 8 $aOrganized into six topical chapters - family life, friendship, work, race relations, public life, and the secession crisis - these writings illuminate the experience of white Southern women as never before.
520 8 $aIn an elegant introductory essay that critically reviews the historiography of the last thirty years, Cashin argues that white women in the slave South created their own distinctive culture, a "culture of resignation," which, unlike that of their Northern counterparts, accepted inequity and refrained from political activity.
520 8 $aOur Common Affairs examines the strong ties women developed among female kinfolk and friends; their troubled relations with slaves, especially female slaves; their frequent distaste for politics; and their mixed but largely fearful reaction to secession. The documents emphasize the pressing daily responsibilities these women faced and reveal their authors as flawed, complex human beings, wholly different from the stereotypes of Southern women that persist in the popular imagination.
650 0 $aWomen$zSouthern States$xHistory$vSources.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xHistory$y1775-1865$vSources.
700 1 $aCashin, Joan E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90668012
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