Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South by Dunaway, Wilma A.

Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521886192)

Vendor: Wilma A. Dunaway
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South by Dunaway, Wilma A.

Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South

$120.00
Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South by Dunaway, Wilma A.

Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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This is the first study of 19th-century Appalachian women. Wilma A. Dunaway moves beyond the black-white dichotomy and the preoccupation with affluent females that handicap antebellum women's histories. By comparing white, American Indian, free black, and enslaved females, she argues that the nature of a woman's work was determined by her race, ethnicity, and/or class positions. Concomitantly, the degree to which laws shielded her family from disruption depended upon her race, her class, and the degree to which she adhered to patriarchal conventions about work and cross-racial liaisons.

Author: Wilma A. Dunaway
ISBN-10: 0521886198
ISBN-13: 9780521886192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.47w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 172
Choice 02/01/2009

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