Neither Lady nor Slave : Working Women of the Old South.
Title:
Neither Lady nor Slave : Working Women of the Old South.
Author:
Gillespie, Michele.
ISBN:
9780807861301
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1 online resource (336 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I. The Rural World and the Coming of the Market Economy -- 1. Dollars Never Fail to Melt Their Hearts: Native Women and the Market Revolution -- Notes -- 2. Made by the Hands of Indians: Cherokee Women and Trade -- Notes -- 3. Producing Dependence: Women, Work, and Yeoman Households in Low-Country South Carolina -- Notes -- Part II. Wage-Earning Women in the Urban South -- 4. A White Woman, of Middle Age, Would Be Preferred: Children's Nurses in the Old South -- Notes -- 5. Spheres of Influence: Working White and Black Women in Antebellum Savannah -- Notes -- 6. Patient Laborers: Women at Work in the Formal Economy of West(ern) Virginia -- Notes -- Part III. Women as Unacknowledged Professionals -- 7. Depraved and Abandoned Women: Prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War -- Notes -- 8. The Female Academy and Beyond: Three Mordecai Sisters at Work in the Old South -- Notes -- 9. Peculiar Professionals: The Financial Strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines -- Notes -- 10. Faith and Frugality in Antebellum Baltimore: The Economic Credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence -- Notes -- Part IV. Working Women in the Industrial South -- 11. I Can't Get My Bored on Them Old Lomes: Female Textile Workers in the Antebellum South -- Notes -- 12. To Harden a Lady's Hand: Gender Politics, Racial Realities, and Women Millworkers in Antebellum Georgia -- Notes -- 13. Invisible Woman: Female Labor in the Upper South's Iron and Mining Industries -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women--white, free black, and Indian.Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity. Thirteen essays explore the working lives of a wide range of women--nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants--in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South. By highlighting contrasts between paid and unpaid, officially acknowledged and "invisible" work within the context of cultural attitudes regarding women's proper place in society, the book sheds new light on the ambiguities that marked relations between race, class, and gender in the modernizing South.The contributors are E. Susan Barber, Bess Beatty, Emily Bingham, James Taylor Carson, Emily Clark, Stephanie Cole, Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, Sarah Hill, Barbara J. Howe, Timothy J. Lockley, Stephanie McCurry, Diane Batts Morrow, and Penny L. Richards.ContributorsE. Susan Barber, College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore, Md.)Bess Beatty, Oregon State University (Eugene, Ore.)Emily Bingham (Louisville, Ky.)James Taylor Carson, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)Emily Clark, University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Miss.)Stephanie Cole, University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington, Tex.)Susanna Delfino, University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy)Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.)Sarah Hill (Atlanta, Ga.)Barbara J. Howe, West Virginia University (Morgantown, W. Va.)Timothy J. Lockley, University of Warwick (Coventry, England)Stephanie McCurry,
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)Diane Batts Morrow, University of Georgia (Athens, Ga.)Penny L. Richards, UCLA Center for the Study of Women (Los Angeles, Calif.)-->.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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