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Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807854105 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 10/28/2002 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.76(d) |
About the Author
Michele Gillespie is associate professor of history at Wake Forest University
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Rural World and the Coming of the Market Economy
James Taylor Carson
Chapter 2. Made by the Hands of Indians: Cherokee Women and Trade
Sarah H. Hill
Chapter 3. Producing Dependence: Women, Work, and Yeoman Households in Low-Country South Carolina
Stephanie McCurry
Part II. Wage-Earning Women in the Urban South
Chapter 4. A White Woman, of Middle Age, Would Be Preferred: Children's Nurses in the Old South
Stephanie Cole
Chapter 5. Spheres of Influence: Working White and Black Women in Antebellum Savannah
Timothy J. Lockley
Chapter 6. Patient Laborers: Women at Work in the Formal Economy of West(ern) Virginia
Barbara J. Howe
Part III. Women as Unacknowledged Professionals
Chapter 7. Depraved and Abandoned Women: Prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War
E. Susan Barber
Chapter 8. The Female Academy and Beyond: Mordecai Sisters at Work in the Old South
Emily Bingham and Penny Richards
Chapter 9. Peculiar Professionals: The Financial Strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines
Emily Clark
Chapter 10. Faith and Frugality in Antebellum Baltimore: The Economic Credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence
Diane Batts Morrow
Part IV. Working Women in the Industrial South
Chapter 11. I Can't Get My Bored on Them Old Lomes: The Work and Resistance of Female Textile Laborers in the Antebellum South
Bess Beatty
Chapter 12. To Harden a Lady's Hand: Gender Politics, Racial Realities, and Women Millworkers in Antebellum Georgia
Michele Gillespie
Chapter 13. Invisible Woman: Female Labor in the Upper South's Iron and Mining Industries
Susanna Delfino
Contributors
Index
What People are Saying About This
Neither Lady Nor Slave appreciably widens our acquaintance with the kinds of economic activities of prewar southern women, the wider consequences of some of those developments, and the varieties of women who worked. . . . This compilation makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the developing prewar southern economy and women's complex role in it.Southern Carolina Historical Magazine
This concentration on the 'ordinary' women of the Old South helps to place in proper context women's roles in this society.Civil War Book Review
Adds intriguingly to the evidence about women, work, and the antebellum south.Journal of Economic History
If one wants to blast the myth of the 'Southern Lady' clean out of the water, run, do not walk, to buy this book. This outstanding collection of essays on women who worked in the Old South will provide plenty of ammunition. . . . This is a wonderful book-informative, well-edited, and springing from a serendipitous SHA conference conversation. May there be many more such conversations if this kind of scholarship is the result.Georgia Historical Quarterly
An invaluable collection of thirteen highly original and well-written essays. . . . Neither Lady nor Slave is an exciting and important study that enriches the historiography of women. Beautifully illustrated and impressively researched, it will appeal to the general public and academic specialists alike.Florida Historical Quarterly
These essays represent the cutting edge of the discipline of southern women's history. They are deeply and thoroughly researched, powerfully conceived and elegantly presented.LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri
The editors have assembled a collection that is remarkable for its diversity and breadth. It brings together outstanding examples of current scholarship on women's work and the economic impact of women in a wide variety of settings.Robert C. McMath Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology