Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0801853060 ISBN 13: 9780801853067

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

An assemblage of 128 documents organized into six chapters (family life, friendship, work, race relations, public life, and the secession crisis) which provide insight into the daily lives of white women in the antebellum South. Includes excerpts from letters, diaries, wills, recipe books, and advice literature most previously unpublished written by the wives of planters, merchants, professionals, artisans, and yeoman farmers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Recensione:

"In a concise and thorough introduction, Cashin introduces her theme of a distinct though subjugated culture populated by the mostly well-to-do wives and daughters of plantation owners, merchants, doctors, and lawyers. Under the headings of Work, Family, Friendship, Race, Public Life, and Secession, she allows the women to tell their own stories... The letters and diaries are hard to put aside." -- Washington Post Book World

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The documents that make up Our Common Affairs emphasize the pressing daily responsibilities these women faced and reveal their authors as flawed, complex, and wholly different from the stereotypes of Southern women that persist in the popular imagination.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801853060
• ISBN 13: 9780801853067
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 309
• Redattore: Cashin Joan E.