Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil WarWhen Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more |
Contents
Chapter | 9 |
Changed Households and Changing Lives | 30 |
Confederate Women and Slavery | 53 |
We Must Go to Work Too | 80 |
Husbands and Wives | 114 |
Single Women Courtship and Desire | 139 |
Reading and Writing | 153 |
Women and Religion | 179 |
Confederate Women and Yankee Men | 196 |
Confederate women and Yankee men in Savannah | 199 |
Effects of General Order No 28 | 212 |
The Garb of Gender | 220 |
Jeff Petticoats | 229 |
Chapter Eleven | 234 |
Aftermath of battle | 250 |
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