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Single, white, slave-holding women in the nineteenth-century American South
| Publish Place | South Carolina |
| Publisher | South Carolina Press |
| Publish Year | 2018 |
| Pages | X, 228p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781611178708 |
| Illustration | images |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 2018 - B
| Description | This book investigates the lives of unmarried white women in the nineteenth century within the society of the American South. These single women were not subject to the laws and customs of coverture and therefore lived with greater autonomy than married women. Molloy contends that the Civil War proved a catalyst for accelerating personal, social, economic and legal changes for these women. Being a single woman during this time often meant living a nuanced life, operating within a tight framework of traditional gender conventions. The author describes these themes and their effects on female life: femininity, family, work, friendship, law and property. The relatively overlooked population of single women in both the urban and plantation slaveholding South is studied by examining letters and diaries of more than three hundred white, native-born, southern women. |
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