Women, work, and family in the antebellum mountain South /
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| Author / Creator: | Dunaway, Wilma A. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
| Description: | xiv, 301 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6828740 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disjunctures among Appalachian Women:
- 1. No gendered sisterhood: ethnic and religious conflict among Euro-American women
- 2. Not a shared patriarchal space: imperialism, racism, and cultural persistence of indigenous Appalachian women
- 3. Not a shared sisterhood of subordination: racism, slavery, and resistance by black Appalachian females
- 4. Not even sisters among their own kind: the centrality of class divisions among Appalachian women
- Part II. Structural and Social Contradictions between Women's Productive and Reproductive Labors:
- 5. The myth of male farming and women's agricultural labor
- 6. The myth of separate spheres and women's non-agricultural labor
- 7. Family as privilege: public regulation of non-patriarchal households
- 8. Motherhood as privilege: patriarchal intervention into women's reproductive labors
