{"product_id":"in-the-affairs-of-the-cara-anzilotti-9780313320316","title":"In the Affairs of the World: Women, Patriarchy, and Power in Colonial South Carolina","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy. Though the colony prospered financially, throughout the colonial period the death rate remained alarmingly high, keeping the white population small. This demographic disruption allowed white women a degree of independence unknown to their peers in most of England's other mainland colonies, for, as heirs of their male relatives, an unusually large proportion of women controlled substantial amounts of real estate. Their economic independence went unchallenged by their male peers because these women never envisioned themselves as anything more than deputies for their husbands, fathers, brothers, and friends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs far as low country settlers were concerned, allowing women to assume the role of planter was necessary to the creation of a traditional, male-centered society in the colony. Fundamentally conservative, women in South Carolina worked to safeguard the patriarchal social order that the area's staggering mortality rate threatened to destroy. Critical to the perpetuation of English culture and patriarchal authority in South Carolina, female planters attended to the affairs of the world and helped to preserve English society in a wilderness setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cara Anzilotti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313320314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313320316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.56h x 6.42w x 0.85d","brand":"Cara Anzilotti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913683271935,"sku":"9780313320316","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c1fde103-c3f5-4bba-973b-da3a0383632c.jpg?v=1680621705","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-affairs-of-the-cara-anzilotti-9780313320316","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}