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Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
Laura F. Edwards
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Description for Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. Ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners—elite and poor, whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans—envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted long beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. Ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners—elite and poor, whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans—envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted long beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Series
Women in American History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066009
SKU
V9780252066009
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About Laura F. Edwards
Laura F. Edwards is the Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. Her books include A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era.
Reviews for Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1998. "Completely recasts the era of Reconstruction, redefining the idea of 'politics' and remaking the category of 'labor.' The effects are quietly revolutionary, as is the entire fascinating study."
Nell Irvin Painter, author of Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction "Formidably researched and carefully argued. . . . A very important contribution to the ... Read more
Nell Irvin Painter, author of Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction "Formidably researched and carefully argued. . . . A very important contribution to the ... Read more