Scarlett's Sisters (eBook)

Young Women in the Old South

Anya Jabour (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
384 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-8764-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Scarletts Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional characters flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women.Examining the lives of more than 300 girls and women between ages fifteen and twenty-five, Jabour traces the socialization of southern white ladies from early adolescence through young adulthood. Amidst the upheaval of the Civil War, Jabour shows, elite young women, once reluctant to challenge white supremacy and male dominance, became more rebellious. They adopted the ideology of Confederate independence in shaping a new model of southern womanhood that eschewed dependence on slave labor and male guidance.By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the Souths old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned, and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 26 illus., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: adolescence • Boarding School • Civil War • courtship • elite young women • Ella Noland • female friendship / • Female friendship • Girls • Gone with the Wind • Laura Wirt • Lizzie Kimberly • Lizzie Scott • Louisa Cabell • Loula Kendall Rogers • Margaret Graham • marriage • Martha Hunter Hitchcock • Motherhood • New South • Old South • Patriarchy • plantation • Rebellion • resistance • Sarah Morgan • southern women • white privilege • womanhood • young women • Youth
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-8764-1 / 0807887641
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-8764-6 / 9780807887646