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Neither lady nor slave : working women of the Old South
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- Creator
- edited by Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie
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- Language
- English
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- viii, 324 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807861308, 9780807827352, 9780807861301, 0807827355, 0807854107, 9798890875501, 9780807854105
- OCLC
- ocn476236179, ocm49277486
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- PART ONE : The rural world and the coming of the market economy: -- Dollars never fail to melt their hearts: native women and the market revolution / James Taylor Carson -- Made by the hands of Indians: Cherokee women and trade / Sarah H. Hill -- Producing dependence: women, work, and yeoman households in low-country South Carolina / Stephanie McCurry -- PART TWO : Wage-earning women in the urban South -- White woman, of middle age, would be preferred: children's nurses in the Old South / Stephanie Cole -- Spheres of influence: working white and black women in antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley -- Patient laborers: women at work in the formal economy of West(ern) Virginia / Barbara J. Howe -- PART THREE : Women as unacknowledged professionals -- Depraved and abandoned women: prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War / E. Susan Barber -- Female academy and beyond: three Mordecai sisters at work in the Old South / Emily Bingham and Penny Richards -- Peculiar professionals: the financial strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines / Emily Clark -- Faith and frugality in antebellum Baltimore: the economic credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- PART FOUR : Working women in the industrial South -- I can't get my bored on them old Lomes: female textile workers in the antebellum South / Bess Beatty -- To harden a lady's hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in antebellum Georgia / Michele Gillespie -- Invisible woman: female labor in the Upper South's iron and mining industries / Susanne Delfino