Confederate daughters :: coming of age during the Civil War /

Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. These young women clung tenaciously to the gender ideals that upheld marriage and motherhood as the fu...

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1. Verfasser: Ott, Victoria E., 1971-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008.
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Zusammenfassung:Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. These young women clung tenaciously to the gender ideals that upheld marriage and motherhood as the fulfillment of female duty and to the racial order of the slaveholding South, an institution that defined their status and afforded them material privileges. Author Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledgling nation, born out of a conserv.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.
ISBN:9781435663565
143566356X
9780809387014
0809387018
1280697539
9781280697531
9786613674494
6613674494

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