Mothers of Invention
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Published on 9. November 2000
326 pages
978-0-8078-6332-9 (ISBN)
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When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women’s lives became vexed and uncertain.
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Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books include Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: All the Relations of Life
- Notes
- 1. What Shall We Do?: Women Confront the Crisis
- Public Afairs Absorb Our Interest
- Your Country Calls
- Some Womanly Occupation
- A Part to Perform
- Notes
- 2. A World of Femininity: Changed Households and Changing Lives
- Thinned Out of Men
- The Best Way for Me to Do
- The Bitterness of Exile
- Home Manufacture
- Notes
- 3. Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery
- Unprotected and Afraid
- The Fruits of the War
- Troubled in Mind
- More Expense Than Profit
- An Entire Rupture of Our Domestic Relations
- Notes
- 4. We Must Go to Work, Too
- To Where Shall We Go for Teachers?
- Us Poor Treasury Girls
- The Florence Nightingale Business
- Notes
- 5. We Little Knew: Husbands and Wives
- Separation Is Always Very Sad
- My Longing Wears a Curb
- Little Animals
- How Queer the Times
- Notes
- 6. To Be an Old Maid: Single Women, Courtship, and Desire
- Ever Lovingly and with a Great Desire
- I Wish I Was a Soldier's Wife
- Notes
- 7. An Imaginary Life: Reading and Writing
- A Regular Course of Reading
- The Liberty of Writing
- Writing and Reading the Confederate Novel
- Notes
- 8. Though Thou Slay Us: Women and Religion
- Affliction Sanctifies
- The All Important Subject
- War Has Hardened Us
- Notes
- 9. To Relieve My Bottled Wrath: Confederate Women and Yankee Men
- The Day of Woman's Power
- The Right to Bear Arms
- Discretion Is the Better Part
- Women (Calling Themselves Ladies)
- All Was Fair in Love and War
- Notes
- 10. If I Were Once Released: The Garb of Gender
- Anything I Can Get
- Hoops Are Subsiding
- A la Soldier
- In Female Attire
- A Man's Heart and a Female Form
- Notes
- 11. Sick and Tired of This Horrid War: Patriotism, Sacrifice, and Self-Interest
- So Much Rests upon the Mind
- You Must Come Home
- Mirth and Reckless Revelry
- Notes
- Epilogue: We Shall Never...Be the Same
- Notes
- Afterword: The Burden of Southern History Reconsidered'
- Notes
- Notes
- Bibliographic Note
- Index
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