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Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War
Victoria E. Ott
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Description for Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War
Hardcover. Explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. This title reveals how these women, in an effort to sustain their families throughout the war, took on domestic duties and sought paid work outside their homes as a way of adjusting to the loss of slaves. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 449.
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. Author Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledgling nation, born out of a conservative movement to preserve the status quo, brought them into new areas of work, new types of civic activism, and new rituals of courtship during the Civil War.When differences between the North and South proved irreconcilable, Southern daughters demonstrated extraordinary agency in seeking to protect their futures as wives, mothers, and slaveholders. From ... Read more
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. Author Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledgling nation, born out of a conservative movement to preserve the status quo, brought them into new areas of work, new types of civic activism, and new rituals of courtship during the Civil War.When differences between the North and South proved irreconcilable, Southern daughters demonstrated extraordinary agency in seeking to protect their futures as wives, mothers, and slaveholders. From ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809328284
SKU
V9780809328284
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99-3
About Victoria E. Ott
Victoria E. Ott is an assistant professor of history at Birmingham-Southern College. She has written numerous articles for various encyclopedias and contributed to The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I.
Reviews for Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War
"Confederate Daughters is an engaging and thoughtful study of the role that young women played in creating, sustaining, and remembering the Confederacy." - Amy Murrell Taylor, author of The Divided Family in Civil War America "Confederate Daughters adds a fascinating and important twist to questions about the war's impact on Southern white women." - Jane Turner Censer, author of The ... Read more